Comment 1 for bug 919139

On Fri, 20 Jan 2012, John Lea wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> In multi-monitor environment, windows should spread on the monitor in
> which they reside.
>
> By way of example:
>
> - if there is 1 terminal window on monitor A and 2 terminal windows on
> monitor B, and the terminal app is in focus, clicking on the Launcher
> terminal icon in either of the Launchers should spread the windows on
> their current monitors. So 2 terminal windows should be spread on
> monitor A, and 1 terminal window is spread on monitor B.
>
> Change discussed with JasonS, and is a critical to multi-monitor support
> in 12.04
>

Like many things, just an option change away - ccsm -> scale ->
multioutput_mode = "On current output device"

> ** Affects: ayatana-design
> Importance: Critical
> Assignee: John Lea (johnlea)
> Status: Fix Committed
>
> ** Affects: unity
> Importance: Undecided
> Assignee: Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
> Status: New
>
> ** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
>
> ** Tags: udp
>
> ** Project changed: unity-greeter => ayatana-design
>
> ** Also affects: unity
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> ** Changed in: ayatana-design
> Assignee: (unassigned) => John Lea (johnlea)
>
> ** Tags added: udp
>
> ** Changed in: ayatana-design
> Importance: Undecided => Critical
>
> ** Changed in: ayatana-design
> Status: New => Triaged
>
> ** Changed in: unity
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Sam Spilsbury (smspillaz)
>
> ** Changed in: ayatana-design
> Status: Triaged => Fix Committed
>
> ** Description changed:
>
> In multi-monitor environment, windows should spread on the monitor in
> which they reside.
>
> By way of example:
>
> - if there is 1 terminal window on monitor A and 2 terminal windows on
> monitor B, and the terminal app is not in focus, clicking on the
> Launcher terminal icon in should focus the last used terminal app window
> *on the monitor that contains the clicked on Launcher*
>
> - if there is 1 terminal window on monitor A and 2 terminal windows on
> monitor B, and the terminal app is in focus, clicking on the Launcher
> terminal icon in either of the Launchers should spread the windows on
> their current monitors. So 2 terminal windows should be spread on
> monitor A, and 1 terminal window is spread on monitor B.
> +
> + Change discussed with JasonS, and is a critical to multi-monitor support
> + in 12.04
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/919139
>
> Title:
> window management, multi-monitor - In multi-monitor environment,
> windows should spread on the monitor in which they reside
>
> Status in Ayatana Design:
> Fix Committed
> Status in Unity:
> New
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> In multi-monitor environment, windows should spread on the monitor in
> which they reside.
>
> By way of example:
>
> - if there is 1 terminal window on monitor A and 2 terminal windows on
> monitor B, and the terminal app is not in focus, clicking on the
> Launcher terminal icon in should focus the last used terminal app
> window *on the monitor that contains the clicked on Launcher*
>
> - if there is 1 terminal window on monitor A and 2 terminal windows on
> monitor B, and the terminal app is in focus, clicking on the Launcher
> terminal icon in either of the Launchers should spread the windows on
> their current monitors. So 2 terminal windows should be spread on
> monitor A, and 1 terminal window is spread on monitor B.
>
> Change discussed with JasonS, and is a critical to multi-monitor
> support in 12.04
>
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