GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 741749
Primary monitor setting ignored
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:33:29 UTC
When I use the displays tool to try to change my primary monitor, the option doesn't do anything. My screen flashes and a dialog comes up asking if I want to keep the new changes or revert them, but the toolbars are still on the same monitor. I've attached a screenshot. (It doesn't appear that the monitor numbers are visible in the screenshot; the left monitor was "1" and the right was "2". Regardless, I alternated through trying to change each monitor to Primary and Secondary and the toolbar never moved from the right screen.) I'm on Ubuntu 14.10 with nvidia driver and the gnome-shell package version 3.12.2-1ubuntu7 installed.
I think my attachment got lost, so I've just uploaded it to imgur: https://i.imgur.com/b1zYOSy.jpg
What are the versions of the mutter and gnome-control-center packages?
The mutter-common, libmutter0d, and gir1.2-mutter-3.0 are all 3.12.2-1ubuntu2. (I don't have the "mutter" package installed.) gnome-control-center is 1:3.12.1-5ubuntu2.
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