** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Opinion
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Title:
Unity multi monitor support still needs work
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
The following is of personall opinion, I expect others to disagree.
A few months ago at the UDS this video was recorded to show the
upcoming multi-monitor support:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=lbwNMnNUGFA
I was very excited about this video, as in 11.10 the 'solution' to
multiple monitors was just to duplicate the dash/launcher/top bar
comletely and only have the "nautilus desktop" span across the
multiple screens. The video that was release at UDS demonstrated that
each screen had it's own properties, and that the launcher was only
shown by default on the main screen (they are actually hidden after
watching the video again which is dissapointing)
In my opinion, the way that Unity handles multiple desktops should be
similar to how Gnome-Shell handles multiple desktops. Only the main
screen will get the launcher and top bar, and the subsequent screens
will just be added workspaces. I seriously hate the redundancy of
having multiple identical looking screens except for a few icons and
the windows themselves.
In the system settings>displays there is already the gnome-shell
specific option to drag which screen the top menu should be on,
perhaps we could just piggyback off of this same feature and have that
same setting determine which screen all of the Unity junk should be
on. That way for people who have gnome-shell and Unity installed, the
setting would be shared between the two.
Again, these are just my personal observations, but I feel like I am
not alone in the idea that duplicating the Unity shell on each screen
is not the proper solution. And it is nearly identical to how it was
in 11.10. (Did anything even change since 11.10?)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.4.0-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.27-generic 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic x86_64
.tmp.unity.support.test.0:
ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins:
[core,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,vpswitch,snap,mousepoll,resize,place,move,wall,grid,regex,imgpng,session,gnomecompat,animation,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,workarounds,scale,expo,ezoom,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Sun Mar 4 12:51:23 2012
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: precise
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Cayman PRO [Radeon HD 6950] [1002:6719]
(prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: PC Partner Limited Device [174b:186b]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120301)
MachineType: EVGA 132-YW-E179-FTW
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic
root=UUID=e13ba62a-6ba1-43f1-8380-8c409080a450 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/11/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
dmi.bios.version: 6.00 PG
dmi.board.name: 132-YW-E179-FTW
dmi.board.vendor: EVGA
dmi.board.version: 1
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: EVGA
dmi.chassis.version: 132-YW-E179-FTW
dmi.modalias:
dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologies,LTD:bvr6.00PG:bd09/11/2009:svnEVGA:pn132-YW-E179-FTW:pvr1:rvnEVGA:rn132-YW-E179-FTW:rvr1:cvnEVGA:ct3:cvr132-YW-E179-FTW:
dmi.product.name: 132-YW-E179-FTW
dmi.product.version: 1
dmi.sys.vendor: EVGA
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.7.0~bzr2995-0ubuntu5
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.30-1ubuntu1
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 8.0.1-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.1-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.11.4-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev
1:2.6.99.901+git20120126-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati
1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
1:0.0.16+git20111201+b5534a1-1build2
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