Dual Head - Panels on the wrong screen

[xpender]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

When upgrading to gnome-panel & gnome-panel-data 2.27.91-0ubuntu2 (Karmic) both Panels of Gnome are displayed on the Right (Second Screen). The Nautilus Desktop Icons are still displayed on the Main (Left Screen)

Display Configuration:
 - external LCD 1600x1200 on the left
 - external VGA 1600x1200 right of LCD
 - internal Laptop LCD disabled

Expected:
 - Panels should be shown on the Main-Screen as the Nautilus Icons

After downgrading back to 2.27.4-0ubuntu6, the Panels are shown correctly on the left screen.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, the bug is one that needs to be send directly upstream to: http://bugzilla.gnome.org , forwarding instructions are available at: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME , Thanks in advance.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

I just found this report, after my panel behaved strrangely after switching to a dual-head setup. After searching through the Gnome bugzilla, I found these:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=581519 (panel behaving "randomly")
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=594218 (closest to this LP bug report)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=513685 (another)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562944 (IMHO offers a good solution)

I'll leave it to the original reporter or a maintainer to choose which one to link to this bug. My preference would be to place the panels to the border they were before switching screens, and on the "primary" screen which XRandR 1.3 seems to offer.

[Martin Emrich (emme)]

Oops, I overlooked that there is already a link to bugzilla.gnome.org, I just saw Pedro's last comment... never mind.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks Martin.

[lunomad (damon-metapaso)]

For noobs like myself:

I was able to manually correct this problem using ALT+LeftClick + Drag to position the panels on the correct screen. I'd forgotten how to do this and spent considerable time tracking down this solution ("move" is not available in the context menu).

[Christian Kosmowski (ckosmowski)]

Dragging the panels with this key-combination solved my Problems too. The panels are in the right place and i can also use the whole screen for positioning items again.

[Jeremy Nickurak (nickurak)]

This really needs to be a preference. A lot of people like to use their laptop screen as the primary monitor, and then use the VGA for a projector display. Many people like to use a laptop at a desktop workstation, in which case the external display should be primary, because it's larger and better quality.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=562944 seems to be the solution here.