Changing screen geometry in the middle of startup messes up positions of autostart application windows

[Märt Põder]

Something during the startup of Unity messes up predefined positions of autostart applications. Debugging the issue resulted that when "DEBUG 2011-12-14 01:51:42 glib <unknown>:0 Setting to primary screen rect: x=0 y=0 w=1280 h=1024" was displayed after the autostart application was started/displayed, then at least one of the predefined coordinates (x or y) of autostart application window was messed up (set to default value).

The message displayed in ~/.xsession-errors is defined in UnityScreen::Relayout in plugins/unityshell/src/unityshell.cpp and it seems that if I run my applications after that message is displayed during Unity startup, there are no problems.

However, this is not expected behaviour from Unity shell, it shouldn't matter when exactly I start my applications, as long as I start them from Ubuntu system menu in a normal way. Unity 2D, GNOME3 shell and GNOME3 fallback session are doing fine in this respect.

Unity version: 4.24.0-0ubuntu2b1

See also: https://bugs.launchpad.net/screenlets/+bug/885322

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Thanks for the bug report. Is that still an issue for you Ubuntu 12.04 with all updates applied? Can you please test that and let us know?