GNOME 3, icon bar in the middle of the screen

Bug #1318561 reported by Cardamom
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When I hit the super key to enter the application menu, I find it in the middle of the screen, while normally it should be on the left side. After rebooting this issue disappears. I have experienced it several times, but I cannot say when it changes from left side to the center of the screen and which is the origin of this bug.

Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04
Architecture: amd64
Desktop: GNOME 3

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Cardamom (marcofritz) wrote :
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Cardamom (marcofritz) wrote :

here's another screenshot

affects: shotwell (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

Cardamom, can you please attach output from `xrandr -q`

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Cardamom (marcofritz) wrote :

@Tim

here it is:

xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1366x768 60.0*+
   1280x720 59.9
   1152x768 59.8
   1024x768 59.9
   800x600 59.9
   848x480 59.7
   720x480 59.7
   640x480 59.4
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

many thanks :)

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Tim Lunn (darkxst) wrote :

Cardamon, does that change when the bug happens? looks to be pretty normal really

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Cardamom (marcofritz) wrote :

Tim,

you're right, this output seems to be very normal indeed.

Actually, the output I posted in #4 was when the icon bar was in the middle; I rebooted and the icon bar now is on the left side (good thing!), but typing xrandr -q, now it identically gave me the same normal output.

 xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
   1366x768 60.0*+
   1280x720 59.9
   1152x768 59.8
   1024x768 59.9
   800x600 59.9
   848x480 59.7
   720x480 59.7
   640x480 59.4
HDMI-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
VGA-0 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

It looks like there's no trace in this output of this weird behaviour...

Anyway, since this is not a security bug, to me it's not big problem; if, there's no solution for the moment, I could reboot when necessary (not big deal to me).

honestly, now I'm more interested in this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shotwell/+bug/1318191

Thanx

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti) wrote :

It can be solved by restarting the shell (Alt-F2 and then r). It happens to me also. I am using cairo-dock too, but I am not sure if this is related --- I do not think because I am quite sure that it happened without cairo-dock too.

In this moment I have the buggy behavior; it started just resuming from suspend. xrandr is normal.

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Cardamom (marcofritz) wrote :

Thanks Romano for the hint, just experienced the bug again and your solution worked perfectly! :) (me too I'm using Cairo-dock, but even when it's disabled I experienced that issue).

anyway, for the moment this way is doing the trick for me!

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d3ngar (d3ngar) wrote :

Same for me, I also experience the issue. I'm also using cairo-dock.

The issue seems to only arise when I'm having two monitors connected to my laptop.

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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu GNOME 14.04 (trusty) reached end-of-life on April 28, 2017

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseNotes/UbuntuGNOME#Support
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-gnome/2017-March/004211.html

We appreciate that this bug may be old and you might not be interested in discussing it any more. But if you are then please upgrade to the latest Ubuntu version and re-test.

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

[Expired for gnome-shell (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Expired
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