Notifications should appear on the monitor that currently has focus
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Unity |
Triaged
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Medium
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Unassigned | ||
notify-osd (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
When on a multihead setup, the notifications seem to contiue to pop up at the far upper right corner of all screens. They should be restricted to the primary display instead. As the primary display is generally where the user will maintain their focus, the notifications are more likely to be seen, than if at the far right of all displays.
I very frequently miss seeing notifications in the current situation, as they pop up at the far right of my somewhat large, and higher resolution monitors.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: notify-osd 0.9.33-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Feb 25 21:40:23 2012
GtkTheme: Adwaita
IconTheme: gnome-mono-dark
MachineType: MSI MS-7599
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
LC_COLLATE=C
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
RelatedPackageV
xserver-xorg 1:7.6+10ubuntu1
libgl1-mesa-glx 8.0.1-0ubuntu1
libdrm2 2.4.30-1ubuntu1
xserver-
xserver-
SourcePackage: notify-osd
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-01-12 (44 days ago)
WindowManager: metacity
dmi.bios.date: 05/14/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V10.4
dmi.board.
dmi.board.name: 870-G45 (MS-7599)
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 2.0
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: MSI
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: MS-7599
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 5.6.0 → 5.8.0 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 5.8.0 → 5.10.0 |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 5.10.0 → 5.12.0 |
Changed in unity: | |
assignee: | Mirco Müller (macslow) → nobody |
Changed in unity: | |
milestone: | 5.12.0 → 5.14.0 |
Do you know about the schema-key com.canonical. notify- osd:multihead- mode? If you set it to "focus-follow" using...
gsettings set com.canonical. notify- osd multihead-mode "focus-follow"
... you're notifictions will always appear at in the top-right corner of the screen, which has the window with the current input-focus.