Notifications appear in non-visible area of multi-head desktop
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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notify-osd (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Mirco Müller |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: notify-osd
I use xrandr to configure a multi-head display -- a main LCD screen and a TV-out.
In order to keep within my video card's 2048x2048 virtual display size for 3D acceleration, I stack my screens vertically in the virtual display, with the smaller screen on top.
Also, I have a single gnome panel at the bottom of my LCD screen.
Without the top gnome panel (if I understand correctly), notify-osd defaults to placing the notifications at the top right of the display. However, for me, this is either a non-visible area, or a TV screen that is across the room from me (and most likely not even turned on).
Re-arranging the screens side-by-side 'fixes' things, but at the cost of 3d acceleration (the virtual display is now greater than my card's 2048x2048 limit).
If there is no top panel, any arrangement of screens with differing resolutions that leaves a 'dead area' at the top right will trigger this issue.
Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → Mirco Müller (macslow) |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in notify-osd (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
no longer affects: | notify-osd |
As requested in the thread of bug 331369, I post my comments here too:
I have a multi-monitor setup, with two monitors of different size - primary is 1920x1200 and second is 1280x1024. Both connected to a Nvidia card, using TwinView. They are aligned at the bottom edge, with panels at the bottom.
If I understand things correctly, putting the panels at the bottom puts notify-osd in some fallback mode where notifications are displayed top right. This would not be a major problem for me if the notifications were displayed within the visible area. But they are not! Instead they are displayed within the "dead" 1280x176 pixel area above my second screen. So I can't see them at all.
This has forced me to revert to the old notification system. For others who have this problem, this can be done easily using gnome-stracciat ella-session: https:/ /wiki.ubuntu. com/DesktopTeam /Specs/ Jaunty/ StracciatellaSe ssion.