Why not Unity-2D?
Because Unity-2D doesn't work with Xinerama either. It puts everything
on my left monitor, and puts an identical copy of the screen on the
second and third monitors. If I try to drag something off the left
monitor it just disappears, and clicking the mouse on the second or
third monitor has no effect.
The *only* combination that (more or less) works for me (on a system
which is by no means old or exotic) is the proprietary driver with GNOME
Classic without effects. If that is the only thing that Ubuntu can offer
me, then it's not unreasonable to expect it to at least work correctly.
To the contrary, this is a metacity behavior, not by Ubuntu's design.
I get that it isn't by design. That's what makes it a bug. And I
understand that the bug is in metacity, that's why I filed the bug on
metacity.
I understand that Ubuntu doesn't have unlimited resources, but this bug
can't be that hard to fix. Note that the window is initially opened on
the *correct* monitor. But then (once it first receives the focus, it
appears to be, which isn't always immediately) something (presumably
metacity) moves the window to the wrong monitor.
It is active behaviour, probably a feature which is misfiring, which
can't be that hard to just turn off or disable, or at least make
configurable, for someone familiar with the metacity codebase. Perhaps
it even already is configurable, if only someone could tell me how!
I'd also like to point out that there is no evidence that this is
specific to Nvidia, or even Xinerama. The only way I can get multiple
monitors to work at all is with Xinerama, but for all I know the same
would happen without it.
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Upon starting a program full screen with NVIDIA Xinerama, the window
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