Sysmonitor and Infopanel: reverts to second monitor after restart in dual-monitor setup

[R Sekouri]

I use a dual-monitor setup. Sysmonitor and Infopanel save all other settings normally, but if I drag them to the main monitor and restart them, they move to the secondary monitor. Left on the second monitor they save their positions normally.

In case it matters: Mint 14 Nadia RC, Cinnamon x64 Edition.

[Rastko Karadzic (rastkokaradzic)]

Can you reproduce this on other screenlets or it just happens whit Sysmonitor and Infopanel? Could you post here 'cat .config/screenlets/InfoPanel/default/*' before moving InfoPanel to primary monitor, after moving and after restarting screenlets. Also, which version of screenlets are you using?

Regards,
Rastko Karadzic

[R Sekouri (r-sekouri)]

I'll see what I can do - I ended up switching to Maya KDE because of some hardware issues but I can do another partition + a clean install of Nadia Cinnamon for testing purposes (the bug just plain slipped my mind, apologies!). Just need a little time :)

Going from memory - Sysmonitor and Infopanel appeared to be the only ones behaving in that fashion. The screenlets version was the one from the development PPA if I'm not mistaken.

[Rastko Karadzic (rastkokaradzic)]

I've made clean Nadia Cinnamon install and I'm able to recreate "bug"
you've reported. In my case, screenlets are forced to move to secondary
display only if screenlet height is bigger than primary display height.
My primary monitor on my laptop is 1366x768 and default Sysmonitor is way
to big for that workspace height and because of that it's forced to move
on secondary 1080p display. If I set 1080p monitor to be primary display
and scale Sysmonitor to 200% (so it doesn't fit in 1080 pixels), it's again
forced to move, in this case, to secondary (1366x768) display. I don't
know if this is WM bug or WM developers made it like that because of some
kind of convenience, but it's not bug in screenlet code. If this is problem
that you have, you can avoid it scaling screenlets down a little bit.

Regards,
Rastko Karadzic
On Nov 13, 2012 9:28 AM, "R Sekouri" <email address hidden> wrote:

> I'll see what I can do - I ended up switching to Maya KDE because of
> some hardware issues but I can do another partition + a clean install of
> Nadia Cinnamon for testing purposes (the bug just plain slipped my mind,
> apologies!). Just need a little time :)
>
> Going from memory - Sysmonitor and Infopanel appeared to be the only
> ones behaving in that fashion. The screenlets version was the one from
> the development PPA if I'm not mistaken.
>
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> dual-monitor setup
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> Bug description:
> I use a dual-monitor setup. Sysmonitor and Infopanel save all other
> settings normally, but if I drag them to the main monitor and restart
> them, they move to the secondary monitor. Left on the second monitor
> they save their positions normally.
>
> In case it matters: Mint 14 Nadia RC, Cinnamon x64 Edition.
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[R Sekouri (r-sekouri)]

Ah okay, thanks for the info - good to know the reason even if I'm not using that edition of the distro anymore. Thanks!