Currently, selecting System Settings -> Displays on systems with multiple monitors and the NVidia drivers produces an error dialog that says "RANDR extension is not present" - as a result, at least one of my users is unable even to access the sticky edge setting (they worked around it via CCSM, but that's not a path to resolution that I'd want to generally encourage).
Between this being NVidia specific and the addition of XRandR support to 304 drivers and later, I'm not filing a bug for that, but just as Chris Schmidt suggested earlier, I first looked for the setting under Appearance > Behavior. I can understand the the reasoning for locating the options in one place or another, but I do find it bothersome that an error related to the display specifically should prevent access to other settings that aren't actually dependent on a display-level feature. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/963731 Title: System Settings - Not obvious which settings in "Displays" panel are display-specific Status in Ayatana Design: Fix Committed Status in GNOME Control Center: New Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Please see the attached screenshot. The top options are monitor specific (they depend on which monitor you have clicked on in the preview image at the top). The bottom two options (launcher placement and sticky edge) apply to all monitors. These were introduced when fixing Bug #950136. This distinction is not at all clear in the interface. I wonder if one way to fix this might be to put some of the options above the monitor preview image thing. ----------------------------------------- Desired solution: - Implement System Settings "display preferences" panel as specified in section "2.4 Displays settings" of the Gnome 3 System Settings spec ( https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1ILTJDiDCd25Npt2AmgzF8aOnZZECxTfM0hvsbWT2BxA/edit ) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/963731/+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
