I tested this on Natty with Unity (based on compiz). (See also bug 745112 about an external monitor at all on natty.)
I set up two side-by-side screens, using an external monitor connecting through the docking base and displayport. I think undocked the laptop (without pressing the prepare-to-eject button), and removed it. I can see in the panel that the applications are still running but their windows are all off the screen. If I double click on say Chrome, which has multiple windows open, I get the exposé type view, but selecting one there does not bring it back on the screen. By contrast if I turn the external monitor off in the control panel then all the windows are shuffled to fit on the current screen. I would speculate that when the machine is undocked, something lower in the stack (X?) either doesn't notice this has happened, or doesn't send a xrandr reconfiguration event, or compiz doesn't respond to it in the same way it would handle a software-initiated reconfiguration. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/733603 Title: Windows "lost" when switching from mirrored displays and back To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/733603/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
