multiple screens cannot align askew

[teledyn]

Using Ubuntu 17.04 and gnome-shell 3.24.1-0ubuntu on an HP laptop with an ASUS screen, I have the screen to the right of the laptop on the desk and set back so that *visually* the ASUS screen is to the right and about 50% up from the laptop screen.

On the Unity desktop, when the Display configuration is set to the ASUS rectangle is moved up from the baseline of the laptop screen rectangle, there is a seamless path for the mouse to travel from one screen to the next, up at an angle, the cursor exits at 75% on one screen and enters the next at 25% of the height, a very natural movement.

This does not work with Gnome-Shell: no matter how the rectangles in the Display system setup are aligned, if the cursor exits one screen at 25% of the height, it will enter the other screen also at 25% of the height, which is no big deal, but it is annoying and all the more so when it works in the deprecated Unity desktop.

[teledyn (garym-teledyn)]

Further to this, if the rectangles in the Display setup are set with the base of the right box 50% up the side of the left, the cursor will not move right of the lower 50% of the laptop screen or more left of the upper (non-overlapping) portion of the ASUS screen, however in the overlap area the mouse will still enter the receiving screen at the same proportional height as it was on the screen left, ie it is moving as if the screens were set horizontally aligned

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[teledyn (garym-teledyn)]

Done: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=783331

On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 1:35 PM, Jeremy Bicha <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make
> Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it
> would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers
> of the software by following the instructions at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please
> tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a
> bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1695036
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> Title:
> multiple screens cannot align askew
>
> Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Using Ubuntu 17.04 and gnome-shell 3.24.1-0ubuntu on an HP laptop with
> an ASUS screen, I have the screen to the right of the laptop on the
> desk and set back so that *visually* the ASUS screen is to the right
> and about 50% up from the laptop screen.
>
> On the Unity desktop, when the Display configuration is set to the
> ASUS rectangle is moved up from the baseline of the laptop screen
> rectangle, there is a seamless path for the mouse to travel from one
> screen to the next, up at an angle, the cursor exits at 75% on one
> screen and enters the next at 25% of the height, a very natural
> movement.
>
> This does not work with Gnome-Shell: no matter how the rectangles in
> the Display system setup are aligned, if the cursor exits one screen
> at 25% of the height, it will enter the other screen also at 25% of
> the height, which is no big deal, but it is annoying and all the more
> so when it works in the deprecated Unity desktop.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+
> bug/1695036/+subscriptions
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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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