FYI, I had the problems of nVidia settings not surviving since 18.04 (and every release in between) up to 20.04.
I believe the underlying cause is that gdm3 greeter opens a new X Screen for the user session after login, and a discrepancy between the X screen configurations cannot be resolved because there is no way -- or, more precisely, none that I'm aware of -- that would allow storing anywhere, a configuration for the new X Screen that gets spawned. Proof of the existence of a new X Screen can be found by starting a remote terminal session against the target system and then running "sudo lsof /tmp/.X11-unix/X* ". Before the login, only one pid exists from node "/tmp/.X11-unix/X0". After the login, a second pid exists from node "/tmp/.X11-unix/X1". I believe this "X0" and "X1" refer to "X Screen 0" and "X Screen 1", but the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file know only about Screen 0 -- therefore initializing a new screen after every login and/or return after the screen saver has been used. Further proof can be found by switching from gdm3 to lightdm by issuing "sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm". This causes other problems (with background screens and alignment of screens, etc), but it proves the fact that monitor layout configurations survive on the same hardware/software components (specifically, same version of nVidia drivers, xorg.conf files, ec), when all that changes is the display manager and how it handles X Screens. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1874217 Title: [nvidia] Dual monitor setup with secondary monitor in portrait-right mode cause tiled windows to occupy 1.5 monitors To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-control-center/+bug/1874217/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
