Multiple displays: Order is reset after reboot

[Fabio Gomes]

When you have 2 monitors and change their ordes in the Displays config, after reboot their order is reset.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.3
Package: elementary-desktop 1.349+393~ubuntu0.3.1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-34.60-generic 3.13.11.4
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-34-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
CurrentDesktop: Pantheon
Date: Tue Aug 19 09:56:01 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-14 (5 days ago)
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.3 "Freya" - Daily amd64 (20140810)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=pt_BR:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors: [WARNING:flash/platform/pepper/pep_module.cpp(63)] SANDBOXED
ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Sascha Heuterer (theanachron)]

Confirmed.
Same with disabling monitors and just logout/login again.

[Nicholas J. Lee (nikolaijlee)]

For those of you trying to fix the issue, Aaron Segner (asegner) commented that the following terminal command calls the saved settings:

gnome-settings-daemon --replace

Adding it to /etc/rc.local is a quick and dirty fix that works.

[Jesse Alter (cprompt)]

I can confirm this is also a problem with three displays. When I run "gnome-settings-daemon --replace" it does restore the proper order, but the main display is still set to the wrong one, and there is a virtual desktop larger than the actual screen resolution on one of the monitors. (I can put the mouse to the far right corner and all displays shift to the left, revealing a gray bar outside of the wallpaper.) I believe this is because I have settings in xorg.conf to compensate for the overscan on one of the monitors, but perhaps Pantheon doesn't recognize that.

I can correct this by opening NVIDIA X Server Settings, making some minor change to X Server Display Configuration to enable the "Apply" button, and clicking apply. I need to do this on each logon.

[Diego Toral (diegotoral)]

Same problem here with two displays.

[Paul Buckley (paulbuckley221)]

Same issue here, two displays.

[alexandr (alexandrpunk)]

i got the same problem, i got two displays and in every reboot the order is reseted, uno monitor is vga and the other is dvi both plugged to a nvidia card (with the nouveau driver)

[Seth (learc83)]

This problem seems to originate with Ubuntu 14.04. Here's an article on a potential fix.

http://bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/74-ubuntu/309-ubuntu-dual-display-monitor-position-lost

Is it feasible to add this fix to Freya?

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Seth, no it can't be implemented in elementary OS because that's a
hack/workaround. But we would accept a patch for whatever component is
broken if one exists.

Have you got the upstream bug report for this issue? That's where a patch
is most likely to be found.

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 11:12 PM, Seth <email address hidden> wrote:

> This problem seems to originate with Ubuntu 14.04. Here's an article on
> a potential fix.
>
> http://bernaerts.dyndns.org/linux/74-ubuntu/309-ubuntu-dual-display-
> monitor-position-lost
>
> Is it feasible to add this fix to Freya?
>
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[Seth (learc83)]

The Ubuntu bug report indicates it's only a problem for people using Gnome shell with Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1292398

Does Elementary OS use any Gnome code?

[Cody Garver (codygarver)]

Your question is very broad. Try this command and see if it fixes it:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xrandr
default-monitors-setup do-nothing

On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 12:14 AM, Seth <email address hidden> wrote:

> The Ubuntu bug report indicates it's only a problem for people using
> Gnome shell with Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-
> shell/+bug/1292398
>
> Does Elementary OS use any Gnome code?
>
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