** Changed in: compiz
Milestone: 0.9.10.0 => 0.9.11.0
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1043759
Title:
Display settings confirmation dialog appears out of the screen when
disabling one monitor in a multi monitor setup
Status in Compiz:
Triaged
Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Bug description:
I have a two monitors setup with the laptop screen and external
monitor connected via VGA. This setup is illustrated in the attached
screenshot from the display settings applet in the control center.
* Taking that setup as a starting point,
* Place the display settings window on laptop monitor ("bottom" display)
* Click on the "off" button for the laptop monitor to disable it
* Click the "apply" button to confirm settings
Expected result:
* Laptop monitor turns off
* Display settings window moves to the current workspace on the active monitor
* Popup dialog asking if I want to keep this configuration or revert it
appears on same workspace as above
Current result:
* Laptop monitor turns off
* Display settings window and popup dialog move to the workspace "down" from
the currently active one
In other words what is happening is that the windows that were in a
disabled monitor gets moved to a workspace that has the same relation
to the current one as the spatial relationship between monitors. For
example if the laptop monitor was setup as being on the right of the
external monitor, the window would be on the workspace to the right of
the active one.
This is clever, but extremely hard to guess for the user, especially
if they don't normally use workspaces in their daily ubuntu usage.
What's worse is that there's a timeout on the confirmation dialog that
will keep ticking and will automatically revert the previous
configuration when it expires, confusing the user even more.
I don't mind keeping the clever behaviour but the display settings
window should be an exception to that rule and should always appear on
the active workspace on the active monitor. Or the workspace should
switch automatically to the one where the window ends up being placed
in.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu13
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-13.13-generic 3.5.3
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-13-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.5.1-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 30 12:50:20 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386
(20120423)
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-08-29 (0 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
activity-log-manager-control-center 0.9.4-0ubuntu3
deja-dup 23.90-0ubuntu1
gnome-control-center-signon 0.0.13-0ubuntu1
indicator-datetime 12.10.0-0ubuntu1
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