Vertical dual monitor setup with main monitor on bottom causes overview to only use one eighth of screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Dash to dock |
Fix Released
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Unknown
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OEM Priority Project |
Fix Released
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High
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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High
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Daniel van Vugt |
Bug Description
Very recently I have started experiencing a constant bug of the app overview / search functions of gnome shell being entirely unusable because shell operates at such a tiny scale that barely anything is shown on screen.
I managed to narrow the problem down to having something to do with dual monitors, and then played around a bit with the settings. My results are that no matter what other configuration I set my two monitors in, gnome-shell operates perfectly. That is, if my secondary monitor is on the left, right or below my primary one, all is well.
If, however, the secondary monitor is set to be on top of the primary one (As it physically is in my current setup), then the overview and app search functionality starts using some very weird kind of vertical scaling and becomes unusable. The window previews are so small that the (most of the time invisible) X button is bigger than the window itself, thus only making me able to close the windows instead of switching to them or moving them. Application search only shows half of the first row, the other half fading away.
I am running Ubuntu 20.04 Focal Fossa (development branch) and version 3.36.0-2ubuntu1 of gnome-shell.
Here are screenshots of my problem:
The overview screen barely showing my open windows
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The search function only showing the top half of first row of icons
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When you mouse-over the windows many times over and over you might get the X button to show
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ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu21
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
DisplayManager: gdm3
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-02-25 (33 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Alpha amd64 (20200220)
Package: gnome-shell 3.36.0-2ubuntu1
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm-
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSign
RelatedPackageV
Tags: third-party-
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-18-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dialout dip lpadmin lxd plugdev sambashare sudo tty uucp
_MarkForUpload: True
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
tags: | added: rls-ff-incoming |
tags: | added: multimonitor |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) |
tags: | removed: rls-ff-incoming |
summary: |
Vertical dual monitor setup with main monitor on bottom causes overview - to only use one eigth of screen + to only use one eighth of screen |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → In Progress |
Changed in gnome-shell-extension-ubuntu-dock (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in dash-to-dock: | |
status: | Unknown → New |
Changed in oem-priority: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
no longer affects: | gnome-shell |
Changed in dash-to-dock: | |
status: | New → Fix Released |
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