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Bug 794971 - Login controls not displayed on all screens
Login controls not displayed on all screens
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gdm
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.28.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GDM maintainers
GDM maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2018-04-04 11:39 UTC by Stuart Bishop
Modified: 2018-05-24 11:49 UTC
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Description Stuart Bishop 2018-04-04 11:39:54 UTC 
The login controls are only displayed on one display, which does not appear to be configurable. This makes logging in impossible when that display is not visible due to physical positioning or other reasons.

Ideally the screens should be mirrored by default, avoiding this and other issues (such as the assumption that the primary display is left of the secondary display). Alternatively, an option to configure this behavior.
Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2018-04-04 14:25:42 UTC 
create the configuration you want in the user session the copy monitors.xml over to gdm's ~/.config
Comment 2 Daniel van Vugt 2018-04-05 01:42:51 UTC 
Great workaround, thanks Ray.

I think the steps are then:

1. Configure your desktop the way you want.

2. sudo cp ~/.config/monitors.xml ~gdm/.config/

3. Edit ~gdm/.config/monitors.xml to make sure the monitor you want as primary is set as <primary>yes</primary>
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2018-05-24 11:49:12 UTC 
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