Unity tray icons on dual-monitor doesn't expand in width enough on one of screens

[Libor Jelinek]

I have two monitors - one laptop LCD with 1600x900 and external LCD with 1680x1050. Running 11.10 on Nvidia Quadro FX880M with TwinView enabled.

Firstly, I am not sure whether it is bug or not but top bar (with tray icons, calendar, etc.) is shown twice on both screens....

If it is feature, then I am experiencing this bug: On the narrower (laptop LCD) Unity's tray icons doesn't expand enought to make room for all icons. Also battery indicator icon is shown twice. On the wider screen (external) it's rendered perfectly.

Later, I've also noticed that this bug is only when main X screen (wider one) is on the right of laptop LCD (narrower one). If main X screen (wider one) is on the left of laptop LCD (narrower one) than tray icon area is rendered perfectly.

Please see attached screenshot of narrower screen's notification area how odly icons are shrinked and (some) duplicated.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Harry Bear (hbrazzi-free)]

Almost same problem.
I have a laptop LCD with 1440x900 res. As soon as i plug an external CRT display with 1680x1050 res. the tray icons disappear from my LCD and are still visible on the external display.
Running 12.10 on NVIDIA GT218 [NVS 3100M] graphic controller and nouveau driver

[MaTachi (matachi)]

I have the same problem as Harry Bear. Two monitors hooked up to my desktop computer with an Nvidia 660 running 12.10 with the proprietary drivers. The tray icons (skype) only appears on the left one.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates.

The way indicators are shown in both monitors is a feature, so if you have a specific request about a change you could file a wishlist. The double battery indicator that you mention was a bug that was fixed long ago.

Please fill free to reopen the bug (by marking the Status as "Confirmed" again) if you feel there is something still unsolved with respect to these issues.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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