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notify-osd package

Notifications should appear on the monitor that currently has focus

Bug #941227 reported by dobey on 2012-02-26

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #367947: Notifications appear in non-visible area of multi-head desktop. Edit Remove

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Triaged	Medium	Unassigned	Unity 5.14.0 "SRU-1"
	notify-osd (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

When on a multihead setup, the notifications seem to contiue to pop up at the far upper right corner of all screens. They should be restricted to the primary display instead. As the primary display is generally where the user will maintain their focus, the notifications are more likely to be seen, than if at the far right of all displays.

I very frequently miss seeing notifications in the current situation, as they pop up at the far right of my somewhat large, and higher resolution monitors.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: notify-osd 0.9.33-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 25 21:40:23 2012
GtkTheme: Adwaita
IconTheme: gnome-mono-dark
MachineType: MSI MS-7599
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.2.0-17-generic-pae root=UUID=e3ff1788-609f-430f-b0e6-f696b2a2e06d ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
RelatedPackageVersions:
xserver-xorg 1:7.6+10ubuntu1
libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.1-0ubuntu1
libdrm2 2.4.30-1ubuntu1
xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.17.0-1ubuntu4
xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.99~git20111219.aacbd629-0ubuntu2
SourcePackage: notify-osd
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (44 days ago)
WindowManager: metacity
dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V10.4
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 870-G45 (MS-7599)
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 2.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI
dmi.chassis.version: 2.0
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV10.4:bd05/14/2010:svnMSI:pnMS-7599:pvr2.0:rvnMSI:rn870-G45(MS-7599):rvr2.0:cvnMSI:ct3:cvr2.0:
dmi.product.name: MS-7599
dmi.product.version: 2.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI

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dobey (dobey) wrote on 2012-02-26:

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Mirco Müller (macslow) wrote on 2012-03-05:

Do you know about the schema-key com.canonical.notify-osd:multihead-mode? If you set it to "focus-follow" using...

gsettings set com.canonical.notify-osd multihead-mode "focus-follow"

... you're notifictions will always appear at in the top-right corner of the screen, which has the window with the current input-focus.

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John Lea (johnlea) wrote on 2012-03-05:

Should appear on the monitor that currently has focus, see section 2.13 in multi-monitor spec. Marking bug as invalid

Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Invalid

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David Barth (dbarth) wrote on 2012-03-05:

Based on John's feedback, I have turned that into a change request to make the focus-follow mouse as the default.

summary:	- Notifications always pop up at far right with multihead + Notifications ahould appear on the monitor that currently has focus
summary:	- Notifications ahould appear on the monitor that currently has focus + Notifications should appear on the monitor that currently has focus
Changed in unity:
status:	New → Triaged
Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → Triaged
Changed in unity:
assignee:	nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow)
milestone:	none → 5.6.0
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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dobey (dobey) wrote on 2012-03-05:

So, the gsettings key mentioned by Mirco doesn't seem to exist, and the sesttings I see in gconf for notify-osd say "this key has no schema" when I select them in gconf-editor.

Beyond that, having it appear on the screen which has a focused window, is also never what I want; and certainly shouldn't be what happens when notify-osd is running other environments, such as Classic GNOME. Given the current multi-monitor support in Unity, which displays launcher, top panel, and all indicators, on all screens, it's probably best if notify-osd also appeared on all screens under Unity.

In any case, what I'd really want is to only ever have the environment chrome (panels, notifications, etc) on the primary display. I see no way to do that, with notify-osd, nor the rest of Unity.

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dobey (dobey) wrote on 2012-03-05:

OK, so the gsettings keys do exist, though they have the wrong path set, so they show up in the wrong palce in dconf-editor, which is a separate bug.

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2012-03-12

Changed in unity:
milestone:	5.6.0 → 5.8.0

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2012-03-23

Changed in unity:
milestone:	5.8.0 → 5.10.0

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2012-04-12

Changed in unity:
milestone:	5.10.0 → 5.12.0

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2012-04-20

Changed in unity:
assignee:	Mirco Müller (macslow) → nobody

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2012-04-27

Changed in unity:
milestone:	5.12.0 → 5.14.0

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote on 2012-06-06:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 367947, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.