GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 640977
Magnifier screen stays split even after exit
Last modified: 2011-10-14 10:48:28 UTC
This bug has been reported on Ubuntu Launchpad as: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/603680 After quitting magnifier, the screen stays split, and mouse behavior is abnormal. In particular, the apparent visual position of the cursor does not correspond to where the clicks actually happen. WHAT I EXPECT TO HAPPEN: When running magnifier, the screen is split between magnified and non-magnified views. After quitting magnifier, the screen should be restored to a single non-magnified pane. WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENS: After quitting magnifier, the screen remains split. The top pane (or the left pane, in the case of vertical split) contains only my desktop background. The bottom pane (or right pane, in the case of vertical split) contains my desktop icons, gnome-panel, and mouse pointer etc. However, clicking on an icon visible in the bottom pane has the effect of clicking on what would be in the bottom half of the screen, if the whole desktop were visible. See enclosed screen shot. WHY THIS IS BAD: Beyond the fact that magnifier doesn't work when it's running, it also leaves the system in an unusable state. WORKAROUND: I can restore the screen to a normal mode by switching video mode. E.g.: xrandr -s 1; xrandr -x 0 SYSTEM: Tested on Lucid 10.04, but as I recall this problem has existed at least since Jaunty. I am using nvidia drivers. This is reproducible using Ubuntu 10.10 with gnome-mag version 1:0.16.1-2ubuntu1
gnome-mag development has been stalled and it has been replaced by gnome-shell mag [1]. Maintainers don't have future development plan so i am closing all the bugs as WONTFIX. [1] https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-bugsquad/2011-October/msg00001.html