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Bug 660521 - dual screen setup, tray on second monitor draws notifications off screen
dual screen setup, tray on second monitor draws notifications off screen
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 660497
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: message-tray
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-09-29 21:02 UTC by Tomas M.
Modified: 2011-10-13 15:35 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
display settings dialogue (23.87 KB, image/png)
2011-09-29 21:02 UTC, Tomas M. 		Details
lower right corner of the bottom display (72.52 KB, image/png)
2011-09-29 21:03 UTC, Tomas M. 		Details

Description Tomas M. 2011-09-29 21:02:05 UTC 
Created attachment 197820 [details]
display settings dialogue

Im not sure if this is actually a bug or if its intended. but there are glitches with it anyway so im reporting!

dual screen setup.
screens are stacked. primary on top, secondary on bottom. (attached screen of the display settings dialogue).

the message tray appears on the bottom screen (ideally i would want it on the primary display).

the issue at hand is that notification dialogues, due to the nature of my configuration (left aligned displays) appear offscreen (example attached).

it would be nice if i could determine on which screen the tray will appear (like i can do with the top panel).
Comment 1 Tomas M. 2011-09-29 21:03:04 UTC 
Created attachment 197821 [details]
lower right corner of the bottom display

the screenshot is from the lower right corner of my bottom display.
Comment 2 Tomas M. 2011-09-29 21:05:28 UTC 
just to clarify. 

bug: 
message dialogues appear offscreen

feature wish:
notification tray on primary display.
Comment 3 Jasper St. Pierre (not reading bugmail) 2011-09-29 21:13:06 UTC 
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created an attachment (id=197820) [details]
> display settings dialogue
> 
> Im not sure if this is actually a bug or if its intended. but there are
> glitches with it anyway so im reporting!
> 
> dual screen setup.
> screens are stacked. primary on top, secondary on bottom. (attached screen of
> the display settings dialogue).
> 
> the message tray appears on the bottom screen (ideally i would want it on the
> primary display).

If it was on the primary display, how would you open it?

> the issue at hand is that notification dialogues, due to the nature of my
> configuration (left aligned displays) appear offscreen (example attached).

This is a bug.

> it would be nice if i could determine on which screen the tray will appear
> (like i can do with the top panel).
Comment 4 Tomas M. 2011-09-29 21:20:48 UTC 
> If it was on the primary display, how would you open it?


well, pointing to the lower right end of the primary screen, like i did under 3.0

since i cannot move my mouse into the blind area of the virtual desktop, it worked ok, but i guess it wouldnt work for people having secondary screens with a bigger resolution than the primary one.

the issue in 3.0 was that when the tray was hidden, it actually showed in the secondary screen's top side. i think the correct behaviour here would be to make it disappear instead of scrolling down. (not a problem since its not on the primary screen anymore).
Comment 5 Rui Matos 2011-09-30 12:35:31 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 660497 ***