Ubuntu GNOME

  1. Series xenial
  2. Bug #1292398
  3. Comment #44

Comment 44 for bug 1292398

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HaraldK (pifpafpuf) wrote : Re: multi-monitor : second screen position isn't saved from one session to another

Now here is something that did help. In effect it is likely much the same as killing gnome-settings-manager, except it is not killed, but just started later:

sudo echo manual >/usr/share/upstart/sessions/gnome-settings-daemon.override

This prevents the gnome-settings-daemon to be started by the 'init --user' session manager.

I thought now the gnome-settings-daemon might be started by one of

/usr/share/upstart/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop
/etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-settings-daemon.desktop

but these don't seem to do anything. Therefore I created a ~/.config/autostart/gsd.desktop which starts gnome-settings-daemon.

The downside of this approach in contrast to the kill-approach is that the if the daemon falls over, it is not automatically restarted.

Obviously it helps to start the daemon rather later than earlier. Looking at the preconditions in
/usr/share/upstart/sessions/gnome-settings-daemon.conf, they are

  start on started dbus and starting gnome-session INSTANCE=GNOME

There is probably only one little thing missing here, but I have no background to guess what it might be.