Ubuntu
mutter package

mutter does not remember position of extra displays

Bug #1580451 reported by Tim Lunn on 2016-05-11

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1292398: Second screen position isn't saved from one session to another. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Mutter	Unknown	Unknown	auto-bugzilla.gnome.org #747529
Ubuntu GNOME	New	Undecided	Unassigned	Ubuntu GNOME yakkety "3.20"
mutter (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747529

If you have a laptop where you irregularly use the external monitor, mutter will forget the position when you turn off/on the monitor.

See original description

Tim Lunn (darkxst) on 2016-05-11

Changed in ubuntu-gnome:
milestone:	none → yakkety

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2016-05-11

Changed in mutter:
importance:	Unknown → Low
status:	Unknown → Confirmed

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2019-04-18:

Tim,

Do you see the same bug in 18.04 or later?

description:

updated

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2020-02-02:

I am not reproducing this bug on latest stable mutter.

mutter:
Installed: 3.34.3-1ubuntu1
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller:
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Cape Verde PRO [Radeon HD 7750/8740 / R7 250E] (rev 87)

I'm running a 6-head system on focal-devel, with gnome-shell/mutter and a radeon card. I do have troubles getting all the monitors working properly, and invariably am having to rejigger the positions of the extra screens. However, merely powering the monitor on and off does not trigger this behavior, at least not for me.

Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) on 2020-02-03