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unity-greeter package

  1. Bug #1283615
  2. Comment #0

Comment 0 for bug 1283615

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Alistair Buxton (a-j-buxton) wrote : unity-greeter ignores user monitor configuration

To reproduce:

1. Have a multimonitor set up with nvidia
2. Position the monitors however you like.
3. Save the positions to xorg.conf
4. Log out

Expected result: the configured monitor positions are used at the login screen.

Actual result: the monitor positions are all reset to default, and this configuration persists past login, forcing the user to reconfigure monitor positioning after each login.

Impact: When I boot up my computer with unity-greeter I see what is shown in the photo, regardless of how I attempt to configure the monitor layout.

This bug does not affect lightdm-gtk-greeter or lightdm-webkit-greeter, which both correctly honour the Xorg configuration.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-greeter 14.04.3-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-8.28-generic 3.13.2
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Feb 23 00:57:58 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-11 (11 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140210)
SourcePackage: unity-greeter
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)