Selecting primary monitor is not intuitive

[Donn Morrison]

Today when I plugged in my external monitor the Activities bar/clock/etc (is there a name for this?) was on the wrong screen. It took me 20 minutes of plugging/unplugging, restarting X, searching and reading forums until I came across this AskUbuntu post [1]. The answer, to drag the black bar to the other display in Settings > Displays, had been sitting in front of my eyes all along, but apparently unless you've used a Mac (I haven't) it is unreasonable to assume a user would know to do this.

Granted, there is a tooltip that says "Drag to change the primary display." but this is only activated once you have already clicked on the tiny black bar.

Perhaps a better UI hint would be useful here to say "Hey, dumbass, drag that very tiny black bar" or something.

[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/113246/permanantly-set-monitor-as-primary

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu43
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Oct 15 10:24:31 2013
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-27 (17 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130903)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.