@Daniel van Vugt Thanks for your understanding and advice.
Do you have any recommendations for an alternative window manager that is: - Officially Supported by Canonical under the support contract - Touchscreen Friendly - Secure - Has a sidebar on the left (the product I sell is designed around the Unity design) Gnome is supposed to be the de-facto standard Linux desktop for most distributions. I still don't understand why all these regression bugs are entering Gnome, and the Gnome developers are so hostile to listening to the users and use cases of their desktop. See the gitlab board you pointed me to where the dev, on the subject of the on screen keyboard, just says, nope, I designed it this way, not listening to reason of more than 30 people and then locks the ticket. Even you said "If that's true then this is not a bug." in regards to window placement. Which is just mind boggling, of course it's a bug when the window manager clearly prevents the end user from using the system. There also needs to be an easier way to report things upstream. At the moment everything has to be typed over into a new ticket from Launchpad to Github. Can't there just be some kind of export ticket to GitHub markup? Thanks again for any recommendations on Canonical supported Window Managers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1888098 Title: Ubuntu 20.04 gnome-shell places windows on second screen when started from primary screen Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS gnome-shell: Geïnstalleerd: 3.36.3-1ubuntu1~20.04.2 What I expected to happen: When clicking a button on the primary screen to open a new window in any application, that window should always open on the same monitor. What happened instead: Gnome-shell in Ubuntu 20.04 insists on placing new windows on the secondary monitor. Why this is a problem: My setup are Point of Sale terminals and the primary (a touchscreen) and secondary monitors are back to back. When the cashier presses the payment type button, the payment type pop-up is opening on the secondary screen which is displayed to the customer and not accessible to the cashier who needs to complete the transaction. The cashier can't move the pop-up on their own as there is no keyboard access (all buttons needed are in the application it self), and the touchscreen touches on itself (most of the time). In the past I was able to fix this with devilspie. As this problem has been around since Ubuntu 10.04. Was fine in Unity and 16.04/18.04 gnome-shell. But now devilspie is ignored by gnome-shell in 20.04 and gnome-shell keeps opening all the windows on the secondary screen. I've tried various gnome extensions and gnome-tweaks but none of them will open all windows (except the customer display) on the primary monitor only. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.36.3-1ubuntu1~20.04.2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-40.44-generic 5.4.44 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-40-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.4 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sun Jul 19 01:21:39 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-14 (4 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.3-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1888098/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
