Two vertically arranged monitors: various problems

[Tobias Kuhn]

Hi,

I have the following serious problem with Unity: I usually use Ubuntu in dual monitor mode: The main monitor is the one of my laptop and I have an external monitor arranged above the main monitor. (This has the nice effect that the keyboard of my laptop is exactly below each monitor, so I don't get a stiff neck while typing and looking at the monitors.)

Now, Unity is completely unusable with this monitor configuration, due to a number of bugs:

The Ubuntu menu bar is shown on the top of both screens, which is okay. The launcher is only shown on the lower screen, which is not so nice, because the active corner to the top left of the lower monitor is not a real corner but leads to the upper monitor. It would be nice to have the launcher on both monitors (or maybe only on the top one). But these are just minor issues. The real ones follow below:

I can drag a window from the bottom monitor to the top one, but I *cannot* drag it from the top to the bottom. It always gets stuck when the title bar of the window should go below the Ubuntu menu bar on the bottom screen. The title bar of the window always stays on the top monitor. The only way to get a window from the top monitor to the bottom one is to drag it as far down as possible and then to right-click on the title bar choosing "move" and then moving it the remaining distance to the bottom monitor.

Another serious problem concerns maximization of windows. Maximization of a window in the top screen works nicely. Maximizing a window in the lower screen, however, does not work: it shows title and menu in the Ubuntu menu bar of the lower screen (that's good), but the actual window get maximized in the top screen. There is no way to get a window maximized in the lower screen!

As you can imagine, this is a horrible environment to work in, so I had to switch back to Gnome 2. I hope these issues get fixed soon. I actually like Unity when working with one monitor. But its behavior with dual monitors (at least when arranged vertically) is just a nightmare!

Cheers,
Tobias

[Gord Allott (gordallott)]

Hi, thanks for reporting this

Could you please re-report these bugs as separate bugs? launchpad really isn't built to be able to deal with multiple bugs in a single report. Thanks!

[Tobias Kuhn (tkuhn)]

OK, sorry about that. I thought that these different issues might be the effect of one single bug. Anyway, I filed two new bugs for the two main issues:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/785655
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/785658

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

marked this bug as invalid as you have two other bugs already reported.