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Bug 688105 - AppMenu on primary screen can be obscured by full-screen applications
AppMenu on primary screen can be obscured by full-screen applications
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 695377
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.6.x
Other Linux
: Normal major
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-11-11 18:35 UTC by Jeremy Nickurak
Modified: 2013-11-18 14:11 UTC
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Description Jeremy Nickurak 2012-11-11 18:35:58 UTC 
When an application on a secondary screen has an AppMenu, its AppMenu lives back on the primary screen.

If the primary screen is running an application in full-screen mode, you can't see the AppMenu.

In that case, the only solution is:
- un-fullscreen/close the primary app
- use the AppMenu as required
- Re-open/fullscreen the primary app
Comment 1 Florian Scandella 2012-11-12 00:23:14 UTC 
Like i said in the previous bug report, I think an app menu in the title bar would be a nice solution.
Maybe easier after switching to CSD (if it's still planned).
Comment 2 William Jon McCann 2013-03-25 16:06:32 UTC 
Can you please describe the case where you had two fullscreen windows open at once? Thanks.
Comment 3 Florian Scandella 2013-03-25 16:13:07 UTC 
never said anything about two fullscreen windows at once.

The problem is you cannot acces the AppMenu of an app on the secondary monitor if the primary monitor has an app in fullscreen mode.

Even if its not fullscreen, it's cumbersome to go to the primary monitor for the menu if i work on another at the moment.

It's not that big a deal now, but if the trend is to stuff more things into this menu it will.
Comment 4 William Jon McCann 2013-03-25 16:37:39 UTC 
Sorry, misunderstood. Can you give an example of the apps in your specific case?
Comment 5 Florian Scandella 2013-03-26 01:31:07 UTC 
the cause i wrote the original bug was:

I was watching a presentation with totem on the primary monitor. Then i needed the calculator to check something, so i opened it on the secondary monitor.
When i wanted to switch calc to advanced mode i was kinda lost, because i did't find the option. After googling i realized the option moved to the appmenu, which i didn't see because totem was fullscreen on the primary monitor.

I don't know, but i do this quite often .. watch something on the primary monitor (or maybe playing a game) and do some other stuff (browsing, chatting, etc..) on the secondary.
Comment 6 Allan Day 2013-11-18 14:11:43 UTC 
I think that it will be most effective if we deal with this issue as a part of bug 695377 . Florian - I see that you have already commented there. Please feel free to add any information that you feel is important.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 695377 ***