Totem changes desktop layout

[Jens Georg]

I have a notebook in a docking station with an external monitor attached via DVI which I use exclusively. Whenever I start totem, the desktop layout changes such that the desktop is expanded to the laptop monitor which is quite annoying since most of the time the gnome-panel disappears to the other monitor.

It would be nice if my desktop settings would be kept how they are.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Oct 15 00:27:50 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: totem 2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.45-generic
SourcePackage: totem
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686

[Jens Georg (yg-jensge)]

I forgot: This also happens with applications running in Wine

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, what do you call layout?

[Jens Georg (yg-jensge)]

Layout == Desktop on external DVI monitor only.

When starting totem, I get Laptop left of external monitor, desktop expanded on both

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

you get that as soon as your start it? is that specific to totem or with any video player you tried?

[Jens Georg (yg-jensge)]

 - it happens as soon as I start totem (see attached video)
 - it happens with Wine
 - it does not happen with VLC or MPlayer

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

are you using compiz there? could you disable it and test again? i've seen a similar issue but only with compiz activated.

[Jens Georg (yg-jensge)]

No, I have compiz disabled due to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/441873

[Jens Georg (yg-jensge)]

VMWare player does it, too

[Jens Georg (yg-jensge)]

With wine from winhq's ppa, it is gone for wine at least. VMWare Player 3.0 and totem still do it.

[Jens Georg (yg-jensge)]

Doesn't happen if external monitor is connected via VGA instead of DVI

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of Ubuntu the Natty Narwhal, May you please test with that version and comment back if you're still having or not the issue? Please have a look at http://www.ubuntu.com/download to know how to install that version.Thanks in advance.

[Jens Georg (yg-jensge)]

I can't check this as the machine in question doesn't run Linux anymore.