Nautilus window jumping with dual monitors

[Joost Van Durme]

Not sure whether this is a Nautilus bug or window manager bug, but here goes ...

A bug report has already been filed at askubuntu : http://askubuntu.com/questions/279641/nautilus-dual-monitor-issue

I have a dual monitor setup (big desktop style where mouse goes from one screen to the other) in Precise 12.04.2 with my laptop on the left and external screen on the right. I have an ATI Radeon HD3635 card using fglrx drivers and I'm always using the Gnome Classic (No effects) environment.

What happens:

1. Open Nautilus program on ext screen and maximize it
2. Double click on a random folder
3. The Nautilus window jumps to the laptop screen

What should happen:

1. Open Nautilus program on ext screen and maximize it
2. Double click on a random folder
3. The Nautilus window should stay where it is. On the ext screen.

When it doesn't happen:

1. Open Nautilus program on ext screen and make sure it's not maximized
2. Double click on random folder
3. The Nautilus window stays on the ext screen

I also have a startup script doing this:

/usr/bin/xrandr --output CRT1 --right-of LVDS
/usr/bin/xrandr --output CRT1 --primary

Where CRT1 is the ext screen and LVDS is laptop screen.

Any help is appreciated, even more because Precise stays supported until 2017. And it's an annoying bug. ;)
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ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu17.3
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
GsettingsChanges:
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state geometry '1438x813+1440+58'
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state sidebar-width 214
 org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
MarkForUpload: True
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: nautilus 1:3.4.2-0ubuntu8
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-48.74-generic-pae 3.2.46
Tags: precise
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-48-generic-pae i686
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin plugdev sambashare sudo

[Phil. V (philip.v)]

Thanks for your bug report. I'll confirm this, as from the ask ubuntu link there are two people experiencing this problem. Not sure how to fix it though, sorry!

Could you please run "apport-collect 1195725" in a terminal? That will attach some relevant debugging information to this report.

[Joost Van Durme (joostvandurme)]

apport information

[Joost Van Durme (joostvandurme)]

apport information

[Joost Van Durme (joostvandurme)]

Thanks for the confirmation, Phil!
Attached the info you requested.

cheers!

[Prasanna Kannappan (prarobo)]

I want to add that I am experiencing the same behavior with chromium-browser too. When I open a browser window on my external monitor and start typing into the address bar, it moves the window to my other monitor (laptop monitor) in a dual monitor configuration.

It doesn't look like a nautilus bug. It looks more like a windows manager bug.

[Joost Van Durme (joostvandurme)]

I can confirm what Prasanna sees. When Chromium is launched maximized, typing in the address bar makes the browser jump to the non-external screen.
No bug when Chromium is not maximized.

[Prasanna Kannappan (prarobo)]

I flipped the configuration of my monitors so that the leftmost part of my display configuration is my external monitor and to the right is the laptop screen. Now I see that the windows opened in my laptop screen moving to my external monitor after the first double click on maximized nautilus or typing into the address bar of the maximized chrome-browser. This brings me to the conclusion that the window is forced to the leftmost monitor.

Let me know if you need any more information.

[Daniel (parascubasailor+ub)]

Came across this thread while looking for info about this bug. I can confirm that I am affected by this bug, if that helps anyone...
Nautilus 3.4.2
Ubuntu 12.04LTS.