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Activity log for bug #1234679

Date Who What changed Old value New value Message
2013-10-03 12:26:45 Eleni Maria Stea bug added bug
2013-10-03 12:26:45 Eleni Maria Stea attachment added Screenshot from 2013-10-03 15:12:10.png https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1234679/+attachment/3857312/+files/Screenshot%20from%202013-10-03%2015%3A12%3A10.png
2013-10-03 12:29:41 Eleni Maria Stea summary multimonitor fails to render the screen correctly when both Xmir and X are running multimonitor fails to render the screen correctly when both Xmir and X are running and produces "cannot switch monitor configuration" error notification
2013-10-03 12:30:01 Eleni Maria Stea bug task added xmir
2013-10-03 12:38:48 Eleni Maria Stea attachment added IMG_3891.JPG https://bugs.launchpad.net/mir/+bug/1234679/+attachment/3857323/+files/IMG_3891.JPG
2013-10-03 12:47:25 Eleni Maria Stea description How to reproduce: Boot ubuntu and login to unity having both monitors plugged. Start xserver (with startx)and enter another DE. - i started xfce Change the desktop settings to match the unity desktop settings in the other DE Switch to tty 1 (ctrl alt f1) and then to the unity tty (ctrl alt f7 in my case) You should get the error. In my case when I ran the screenshot program I got a crtc error notification (see the screenshot). How to reproduce: Boot ubuntu and login to unity having both monitors plugged. Start xserver (with startx)and enter another DE. - i started xfce Change the desktop settings to match the unity desktop settings in the other DE Switch to the unity tty (ctrl alt f7 in my case) You should get the error. In my case when I ran the screenshot program I got a crtc error notification (see the screenshot).
2013-10-07 01:34:51 Daniel van Vugt tags multimonitor
2013-10-07 08:12:45 Eleni Maria Stea description How to reproduce: Boot ubuntu and login to unity having both monitors plugged. Start xserver (with startx)and enter another DE. - i started xfce Change the desktop settings to match the unity desktop settings in the other DE Switch to the unity tty (ctrl alt f7 in my case) You should get the error. In my case when I ran the screenshot program I got a crtc error notification (see the screenshot). How to reproduce: Boot ubuntu and login to unity having both monitors plugged. Start xserver (with startx)and enter another DE. - i started xfce Change the display settings to match the unity display settings in the other DE Switch to the unity tty (ctrl alt f7 in my case) You should get the error. When I ran the screenshot program I got a crtc error notification (see the screenshot).
2013-10-10 09:04:08 Eleni Maria Stea description How to reproduce: Boot ubuntu and login to unity having both monitors plugged. Start xserver (with startx)and enter another DE. - i started xfce Change the display settings to match the unity display settings in the other DE Switch to the unity tty (ctrl alt f7 in my case) You should get the error. When I ran the screenshot program I got a crtc error notification (see the screenshot). How to reproduce: Boot ubuntu and login to unity having both monitors plugged. Start xserver (with startx)and enter another DE. - i started xfce Change the display settings to match the unity display settings in the other DE Unplug and plug the 2nd monitor Switch to the unity tty (ctrl alt f7 in my case) You should get the error. When I ran the screenshot program I got a crtc error notification (see the screenshot).
2013-10-10 09:09:28 Eleni Maria Stea description How to reproduce: Boot ubuntu and login to unity having both monitors plugged. Start xserver (with startx)and enter another DE. - i started xfce Change the display settings to match the unity display settings in the other DE Unplug and plug the 2nd monitor Switch to the unity tty (ctrl alt f7 in my case) You should get the error. When I ran the screenshot program I got a crtc error notification (see the screenshot). How to reproduce: Boot ubuntu and login to unity having both monitors plugged. Start xserver (with startx)and enter another DE. - i started xfce Change the display settings to match the unity display settings in the other DE Unplug and plug the 2nd monitor while on X DE Switch to the unity tty (ctrl alt f7 in my case) You should get the error. When I ran the screenshot program I got a crtc error notification (see the screenshot).
2013-12-06 16:51:31 kevin gunn mir: status New Invalid
2013-12-06 16:51:35 kevin gunn xmir: status New Triaged
2013-12-11 03:20:49 Daniel van Vugt xmir: importance Undecided Medium
2015-06-09 04:34:55 Robert Ancell affects xmir xorg-server (Ubuntu)
2015-06-09 04:35:36 Robert Ancell tags multimonitor multimonitor xmir
2015-09-17 07:03:52 Daniel van Vugt xorg-server (Ubuntu): status Triaged Won't Fix