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Bug 464971 - running multiple displays menu opens only on first one
running multiple displays menu opens only on first one
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 319423
Product: metacity
Classification: Other
Component: general
2.12.x
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Metacity maintainers list
Metacity maintainers list
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-08-09 08:55 UTC by Yuval Drori
Modified: 2007-08-12 16:39 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.11/2.12


Description Yuval Drori 2007-08-09 08:55:47 UTC 
Please describe the problem:
When running multiple displays (and desktops) and trying to open the menu bar or Xtem, on any display, it will open only on the first one, always. 

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start gnome with multiple displays (and desktops).
2. Goto second display, and open the menu tab.
3. Alternatively right click on second display desktop and select gnome-terminal. 


Actual results:
The actual menu or terminal will open on first display.

Expected results:
The menu or terminal should open on the same desktop/display it called from.

Does this happen every time?
Yes

Other information:
The system is SLES 10.1 (ia64)
Comment 1 Elijah Newren 2007-08-11 14:22:33 UTC 
Multiple xineramas, multiple screens, or multiple displays?  They are all different.

To find out:
  Can you move the mouse pointer from one monitor to another?  If not, you are
  using multiple displays.

  If you can move the mouse pointer from one monitor to another, can you move
  windows from one monitor to another?  If not, you are using multiple screens.

  If you can move the mouse pointer from one monitor to another and you can move
  windows from one monitor to another, then you are using multiple xineramas.
Comment 2 Yuval Drori 2007-08-12 06:33:10 UTC 
I'm using one XServer with multiple screens, no xinerama nor XDMX enabled, this would be the second option you described. This is the relevant part from xorg.conf:
*****
Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier  "Layout0"
    Screen  "Screen_SG-1"
    Screen  "Screen_SG-2" RightOf "Screen_SG-1"
    Screen  "Screen_SG-3" RightOf "Screen_SG-2"
    Screen  "Screen_SG-4" RightOf "Screen_SG-3"
    InputDevice "Mouse2" "CorePointer"
    InputDevice "Keyboard2" "CoreKeyboard"
    Option "Xinerama"   "off"
EndSection
*****
By the way, in KDE it works fine, if it helps.
Comment 3 Elijah Newren 2007-08-12 16:39:17 UTC 
Ah, this bug was fixed a few years ago, back in December 2005.  Before SLES 10.1 was released, in fact.  But for some reason OpenSuSE decided to ship with GNOME 2.12 when 2.14 was out months before their release.  And SLES was based on that OpenSuSE version that used an already obsolete version of GNOME.  If I were you, I'd complain to my distro.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 319423 ***