Login splash straddles multiple monitors

[Michael B. Trausch]

When logging in (just freshly updated Karmic install here), I saw a nifty login splash while the desktop was getting started. Nice work.

However, when displayed on a multimonitor setup (I have a 1440x900 on the left, a 1280x1024 on the right) and the splash showing the word "ubuntu" appears exact center between the two. It should appear exact center on the primary monitor only.

This is using NVIDIA's TwinView. Apps like notify-osd and GNOME panel seem to recognize the border of each screen, though, so it should be possible for the splash to do as well.

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

No, not the boot splash. The splash that appears at login. Somewhere between entering credentials at GDM and gnome-session becoming available. Where inbetween, I don't know. Retargeting back to Ubuntu generically.

[arky (arky)]

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 xsplash.

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Ara Pulido (ara)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 420225, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.

[Michael B. Trausch (mtrausch)]

On Mon, 2009-09-07 at 08:16 +0000, arky wrote:
> 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 xsplash.
>
> When reporting bugs in the future please use apport, either via the
> appropriate application's "Help -> Report a Problem" menu or using
> 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more
> about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

Feel free to read the bug report and not use a canned reply when it's
inappropriate to do so. I already mentioned where I found the bug, and
there is no menu. As I could not determine *what* was emitting the
splash screen between gdm and the desktop becoming available, I filed it
as is.

Surely you must realize that none of apport, ubuntu-bug, nor some
non-existing menu option is the answer here, because the bloody thing
doesn't *have* a menu.

Thank you for finding the package that had the problem, though. I
assume you did so based on some familiarity with it. If that's the case
then you already knew that the canned response was worthless, though,
since xsplash appears to be virtually invisible to the user.

 --- Mike