panel 'hide' buttons only cause panel to 'move' onto secondary monitors

[Tobias]

In panel properties I made the following change:
[ticked] Show hide buttons
  [ticked] Arrows on hide buttons

By using the arrows and moving the panel to the other right-handed screen it moves, but it keeps the size the first screen had. I.e. it does not adapt to the new screens resolution.

Edit 2: When I'm thinking of this, the arrow is used to "hide" the pannel. Not change screen where it should be located. Therefore, a solution is to "hide" it properly by doing some opacity or decrease the width on it or something.

Ubuntu 8.1
The GNOME Panel 2.24.1

[Sergio Meneses (sergiomeneses)]

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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

thank you for your bug report, to confirm and send to bugzilla.gnome.org by somebody having a multi monitor config

[TJ (tj)]

I've just discovered this bug with Lucid using dual monitors (laptop internal LVDS 1280x800 and external DVI-D 1280x1024) using 'twin-view (not separate X screens).

When (in this case) the lower panel properties are set to "Show Hide buttons" the result of clicking the buttons is not to hide the panel but simply to *move* it off the current screen.

Here, the external monitor is to the left of the laptop. When the panel's left 'hide' button is pressed the panel 'slides' to the left and cuts across the external display Because the external monitor has a greater vertical pixel-count and the tops of the monitors are aligned, the 'moved' panel cuts across the lower third of the second screen, and remains 'on-top' of all other windows.

I'm attaching a photo which makes it obvious why this isn't a trivial bug.

[Gary M (garym)]

Is this a duplicate of bug #150857 ?