David's link to the FreeDesktop mailing list should actually be: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-August/027498.html
It appears that the LVDS (laptop) display can only be set to crtc 1, not the first (crtc 0). This causes attached monitors to be placed at crtc 0. Then Gnome defaults to putting the menubar and user interface on the first xinerama output, which is the exterior monitor. It seems like the best way to approach this issue is something with a script run on Gnome startup to try to set user interface elements to be placed on the correct screen. But I'm no expert, so this could all be off. A very good resource on this issue is here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Xorg_RandR_1.2#Xorg_mailing_list -- [i915] Unfortunate Selection of Primary Display on Dell Latitude X1 (i915GMS) with a Dell 2405FPW connected to the VGA port https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/134669 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
