Comment 26 for bug 1888098

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Péter Prőhle (prohlep) wrote : Re: Ubuntu 20.04 gnome-shell places windows on second screen when started from primary screen

Someone wrote, not to me: "Then log out and in again to verify the bug still occurs without extensions.".

However my ubuntu 20.10 is in default release state, I added *no* extension to it (I disbled a few kbd shortcuts, added two kbd shortcuts, so it is basically in release state).

And I have the same disturbing setting, that

        DVI-0 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (in the reality this is my main monitor)

        DVI-1 connected 1680x1050+2560+504 (in the reality this is located as secondary)

and almost everithing arrives to DVI-1, regardless how I started, from wich termial,

Extremly disturbing, since I do not find any possibility to tell a program, to wich monitor to arrive.

In addition to this, the terminal and the firefox arrives maximalised, and the do not know their suggested default size what is larger, thatn the size of the wrong target, ---

--- since I have 2 monitors, I have to adjust all the window sizes by hand, as if it was a Windows.

Since 1995, all my programs are started with suggested locations and sizes, what does not work any longer ...

OK, one thing works, because the main monitor is on the left side: if I tell

        gnome-terminal --geometry=+0+0

but the

        gnome-terminal --geometry=-0+0

it will give a maximalised trash on the wrong monitor, and forgets the default nom-maximalised size as well.

In addition to this, EACH maximalization and non-maximalisation cycle SHRINKS the size of the gnome-erminal by one row and one column: 80 ... 79 ... 78 ...

This is an other bug, but I mention here because it might happen the same problem: the window size and location subsystem has serious problems ...