Comment 67 for bug 1292398

Hah. I've lived with this annoying bug for over a year now, only to bump into this unresolved beauty by accident.

Interestingly,

 - this made me require to babysit any use of the family PC (fixing their screen resolutions on each login). It also made me force Unity onto my clients because that's what Canonical unilaterally chose
 - There were also annoying effects with switching user sessions (losing the monitor layout again) and
 - sometimes things just getting awry spontaneously during a session (symptom invariably apparent keyboard lockup; needed to change to another VT to forcibly `gnome-shell --replace`. Then the monitors would be swapped (annoying mousing) and unfixable (something about dbus unreachable). Also, keyboard input would get duplicated on another VT (which has lead me to finding entire private chat conversations in /root/.bash_history on two occasions.... Luckily I rarely chat "rm -rf" or similar)

Now, nvidia card gave the ghost, meaning I get the builtin intel chipset to handle the graphics. Problem vanished! I just found this bug finding a solution to the problem that I can't find the place to configure where the GDM greeter is shown (if I switch off the secondary monitor, I don't see the greeter).

I second the sentiment that it's aggravating to see Canonical dismiss high-impact bugs like this on the sole reason that "We only support Unity".

This is by far not the only upstart/timing related bug (I vividly remember the issue where X would start on the wrong vt, so that "random keys" would tear down the desktop without warning). The fact that this one seems to manifest with other DMs shouldn't really make it less of an issue.

It's at 228 affected users now. And if more people - like me - have become so used to having to live with utterly broken UX since they opt out of Unity (for clearly superior Gnome3 - it's actually responsive, no advertisements) that they only flag as "also affects me" after they accidentally bump into it when searching for other things... The real number is going to be a bit higher.