xfce4-display-settings "Primary display" option does not work properly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xfce4-panel (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Bug Description
I have a setup with the notebook screen and a external monitor above the notebook. If I position them using xfce4-display-
While the setting does not work properly, it has effects but some are negative. The only software I've seen that honors the option properly is LibreOffice splash screen. The screen the program appears after the splash depend from on which screen the mouse cursor is (as the other applications do).
Another application that detects the option is xfce4-panel, but this is only partial: the panel is always located on the leftmost or topmost monitor, but if the topmost monitor is not the "Primary screen", then the desktop icons ignore the panel and are covered by the panel. Image showing this: https:/
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: xfce4-settings 4.12.3-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 4.16.6-
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Fri May 4 15:45:01 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-06-13 (324 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
SourcePackage: xfce4-settings
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2017-10-20 (196 days ago)
Some applications may not support the primary option yet, so I do not think that this a bug in xfce4-settings which just enables it (equally to xrandr --output <display> --primary).
https:/ /bugzilla. xfce.org/ show_bug. cgi?id= 8328
If possible, please test with Xubuntu 18.10 (dev release).