In vertically stacked monitor setup, most windows open on the top monitor

Bug #1912667 reported by Max Slotov
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gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Undecided
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mutter (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
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Bug Description

Basically, when I have at least 2 monitors that are vertically stacked, where Primary display is on the bottom (see attached screenshot), most apps (on the first launch after boot up) and their new windows open up on the second monitor (top one). Also, all desktop icons are reset to the top after each boot even if they were manually moved to the Primary (bottom) screen.
What I mean by "on the first launch", for example Chrome (at least if "On startup - Continue where you left off" setting is selected), and Spotify, when launching first time after booting, they both appear on the top screen. But if they are moved, then closed and then opened up once again - they appear at the same location where I moved them. By "and their new windows" I mean that, in Chrome for example, it works when multiple accounts exist, and so opening each of those, will open on the top monitor.
Some of the apps are pretty random to this and sometimes remember their last position, sometimes - no. For example, although the toolbar is on the bottom screen, with Jetbrains Toolbox, after opening the Toolbox (from the toolbar icon), window will always appear on the top screen.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.38.1-1ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-38.43-generic 5.8.18
Uname: Linux 5.8.0-38-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.3
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Thu Jan 21 18:41:10 2021
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-12-29 (22 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.10 "Groovy Gorilla" - Release amd64 (20201022)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Max Slotov (real-ovich) wrote :
summary: - In vertically stacked monitor setup, all windows open on the top monitor
+ In vertically stacked monitor setup, most windows open on the top
+ monitor
affects: ubuntu → gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
tags: added: multimonitor
affects: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) → gnome-shell (Ubuntu)
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Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug to Ubuntu.
Ubuntu 20.10 (groovy) reached end-of-life on July 22, 2021.

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Changed in mutter (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
Changed in gnome-shell (Ubuntu):
status: New → Won't Fix
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