Comment 60 for bug 1295267

Just noting that this reproduces (grossly) on my 16.04 Unity, too. Config: Dell XPS 9530 (4k touch screen) + Samsung 4k external display. I've tried other external displays and I get the same problem. Happens with both Nvidia graphics (proprietary) and Intel.

I agree that some of this harder to fix: connecting and disconnecting displays (be it intentionally or because they power themselves off) --> not easy to retain the position of the windows when the same monitor later comes back online. (Could be a different one that is connected, with a different resolution or layout for example).

Anyhow, windows disappearing outside visible area, being moved from virtual desktop (workspace) to another, being scaled to 1 pixel width and moved if they would have fitted into the new screen dimensions, should not happen, ever.

Further, with 4k laptop display and 4k Samsung monitor, I keep losing windows even though the monitor isn't being disconnected or shut down. Just moving between virtual desktops (workspaces) is enough to cause the windows to move around, switch workspaces and disappear.

Goes without saying that it is quite annoying.