After a recent update, Nautilus now behaves properly if I killall nautilus and then restart it, after pugging in the external monitor. If I have Nautilus running and I plug in the monitor, it still behaves as showin the screenshots that I provided.
It's good progress, but I still want to keep the bug alive. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/954092 Title: Nautilus desktop misplaced, when attaching attaching a second monitor Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: When attaching a second screen display to my laptop when I get to my office in the morning, Nautilus attempts to span both displays, but the Nautilus desktop only spans one display. I've attached a screenshot showing both the effect, and my display- configuration dialog box. Workaround: killall nautilus Immediately after I attach my secondary desktop, then open a Nautilus window from the "Activities" screen. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.3.91-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.29-generic 3.2.9 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 1.94.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Mar 13 09:27:19 2012 GsettingsChanges: org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '932x546+97+74' SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-13 (0 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/954092/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
