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Bug 734959 - Second screen position isn't saved from one session to another
Second screen position isn't saved from one session to another
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: mutter
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.10.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: mutter-maint
mutter-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-08-17 17:42 UTC by Alberto Salvia Novella
Modified: 2017-08-21 14:00 UTC
See Also:
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Description Alberto Salvia Novella 2014-08-17 17:42:22 UTC 
As reported by the user:

(Noticed on Ubuntu 14.04 beta 1 GNOME)
At work I have a second screen, which I prefer to virtually put on the left side of my laptop screen.
Using gnome-control-center I can change the position of the second without problem.
But when I disconnect the second screen (to work on another place) and then connect it again
OR if I just power off the laptop and turn it on again,
the second screen position is set back to the default right position.
Comment 1 Bruce Pieterse 2015-10-03 08:35:41 UTC 
Might be related / duplicate of https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=694761
Comment 2 André Klapper 2017-08-21 09:22:19 UTC 
Which actual Mutter version is this about (as I have no idea what "Ubuntu 14.04 beta 1 GNOME" shipped)? 

And is this still a problem in a recent supported version (3.24 or newer)?

Does this terminal command change anything?:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xrandr default-monitors-setup do-nothing
Comment 3 Alberto Salvia Novella 2017-08-21 12:40:30 UTC 
The Mutter version is 3.10.4. Updated.
Comment 4 Alberto Salvia Novella 2017-08-21 12:40:51 UTC 
I have asked downstream to provide the needed info.
Comment 5 Florian Müllner 2017-08-21 13:22:43 UTC 
(In reply to Alberto Salvia Novella from comment #3)
> The Mutter version is 3.10.4. Updated.

That version hasn't been supported upstream for 3 1/2 years. Monitor handling has changed very significantly in that time frame (for starters, gnome-settings-daemon's xrandr plugin doesn't exist anymore, and everything is done in mutter nowadays), so even if that issue could still be reproduced in the last stable release, any fix would almost certainly not apply to 3.10.4. Support for that version is completely up to downstreams.