Gnome fullscreen window placement does not work with dual monitor setup in Ubuntu 8.04

[Bugsy]

Gnome fullscreen window placement does not work with dual monitor setup in Ubuntu 8.04. I have vga- and dvi-monitor connected and dvi-monitor is my main monitor. Everything worked in Ubuntu 7.10.

Now with 8.04 if I open anything that goes straight to fullscreen mode, the new opened window starts in the main screen but jumps immediately to the secondary vga screen. I can drag it back to the main screen but after I close it and open it again the same thing happens. This happens with nvidia-binary and xinerama but also with intel and Xrandr setup.

The issue might be that my secondary screen is left of main screen and therefore virtual screens cordinates x0 y0 remains in the secondary screen. If I change my setup in a way that my secondary screen is right of the main screen the windows jump in the main screen. Even so the correct behavior would be that the windows stay in there where they are opened. If a user wants them to somewhere else then he/she can drag them afterwards.

[Sebastian Busch (webmaster-thamnos)]

Although I cannot confirm that it worked in 7.10, I do confirm the 8.04-behaviour.

I have a laptop (Apple MacBook2,1 with 82Q963/Q965 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) ) with one exit to attach an external monitor. For example "xpdf -fullscreen" or starting a presentation in OpenOffice appears only on the screen of the laptop, not the external monitor. This is very inconvenient when giving presentations with the laptop and an attached projector.

I do not see any change depending on placing of the two screens with respect to each other.

Sebastian.

P.S.: How can you drag fullscreen windows?

[Ted Percival (tedp)]

This is Gnome bug #504692 in Metacity. See http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=504692 . There is a patch attached.