gdm login shows on secondary monitor if twinview enabled on nvidia

[Yuri Nikiforov]

I have Karmic Koala alpha 2, video NVidia 6600 GT. After installing NVidia drivers ver 185.18.14 and enabling twinview everything seems to be ok except GDM login screen. It is shown on secondary display. And this is not comfortable at all.

[Anton Kraus (done)]

I also have NVIDIA twinview enabled.
However, in my experience, the GDM login prompt does not always show on the secondary monitor.
What actually determines its positioning is the current location of the mouse cursor.

[Philip Muškovac (yofel)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug as a bug in nvidia-graphics-drivers-180.
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[Yuri Nikiforov (nikiforov2000)]

How can mouse be on the secondary monitor every time when I turn on my PC ?!
This bug appeared some weeks ago, when login screen was changed. Before if
was full screen login invitation and now it's a small window shown in the
center of screen with my wallpaper on the foreground.

Did I mentioned that I'm using Karmic Koala alpha 2 ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Kraus" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:29 AM
Subject: [Bug 396894] Re: gdm login shows on secondary monitor if
twinviewenabled on nvidia

I also have NVIDIA twinview enabled.
However, in my experience, the GDM login prompt does not always show on the
secondary monitor.
What actually determines its positioning is the current location of the
mouse cursor.

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Status in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
I have Karmic Koala alpha 2, video NVidia 6600 GT. After installing NVidia
drivers ver 185.18.14 and enabling twinview everything seems to be ok except
GDM login screen. It is shown on secondary display. And this is not
comfortable at all.

[Yuri Nikiforov (nikiforov2000)]

I personally think it's a bug in gdmlogin.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Philip Muskovac" <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 7:27 PM
Subject: [Bug 396894] Re: gdm login shows on secondary monitor if
twinviewenabled on nvidia

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu
better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is
important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You
can learn more about finding the right package at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage. I have classified this bug
as a bug in nvidia-graphics-drivers-180.
For future reference you might be interested to know that a lot of
applications have bug reporting functionality built in to them. This can
be accessed via the Report a Problem option in the Help menu for the
application with which you are having an issue. You can learn more about
this feature at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

** Package changed: ubuntu => nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 (Ubuntu)

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Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers-180” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
I have Karmic Koala alpha 2, video NVidia 6600 GT. After installing NVidia
drivers ver 185.18.14 and enabling twinview everything seems to be ok except
GDM login screen. It is shown on secondary display. And this is not
comfortable at all.

[Ralf Naujokat (ubuntu-ralf-naujokat)]

Hi.

Finally i found this bug report! I have exactly the same behaviour here,
and was fighting with xorg.conf and nvidia settings, but nothing helped.

Yes, login window position depends on the mouse position, and the
mouse position seems to be on second screen at startup as default.
If you move the mouse to the primary screen as soon as you see
X starting, the login window position is ok.

Any chances to have this corrected? Perhaps, initializing the mouse
pointer on startup to position (x,y) = (width/2)-1, (height/2)-1 ...

greetings
  Ralf

[MrMagne (mr.magne)]

Before Karmic, the gdm window appeared under the mouse. (When you turn your computer on the mouse was always on the main display and it was fine).
Since Karmic and the new gdm, it appears mostly on the secondary screen, even if from time to time I have seen it on the primary screen (but I don't know why, and it did not seemed related to the mouse position). This is quite annoying when you like to switch on only one screen if you don't need the other.

[georgz (no-email)]

Same problem here.
I'm using Karmic final (amd64) with nvidia-drivers v173 in twinview-mode. The login-screen is displayed on the secondary screen instead of the primary.

[Allcolor-g (allcolor)]

Same problem here... except I have an ATI 4650 HD. Login screen appear on the second monitor.

It's very annoying... it did work correctly under jaunty but since the karmic update it doesn't work anymore.

It's strange that there is no way to configure GDM to show the login on the correct display.

Also my mouse pointer appear in between the two monitor when starting... but that was also the case on jaunty still there the login appeared on the correct monitor.