Essentially, the problem is that during login the screen resolution is resized but the screen isn't cleared; gnome-settings-daemon (or *possibly the GPU) just fills the undefined space with snippets from the framebuffer.
We could just insert a blank before beginning the login, and then unblank after, however this would cause an undesirable flicker for normal cases, where the screen resolution does not need to be changed. Perhaps a better approach would be to alter gnome-settings-daemon such that when it does a mode change during login, to either blank or scale the existing framebuffer, rather than the ugly tiling. ** Also affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => High ** Also affects: ayatana-design Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/850885 Title: (oneiric) greeter screen displayed incorrectly with external monitor during login To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/850885/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs