Unity launcher behavior with dual monitor frustration

[Forage]

Hi,

Yesterday I upgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to 11.04. The new Unity interface is a bit of getting used to but it's behavior with a dual monitor set-up makes it really frustrating.

Videocard: ATI HD6950 (proprietary drivers installed)
Set-up: Two monitors, primary screen on the right hand side, secondary screen on the left hand side, Xinerama turned off.

The launcher is only displayed on the main screen (right). To display the menu I have to go all the way to the left edge of my secondary screen (left). Hovering over the launcher button will only display the menu half-way and semi-transparently, i.e. unusable.

Isn't the global menu supposed to be displayed on both monitors?

[MattLevesque (cybermatthieu-gmail)]

I think I would be nice feature to have the possibility to move the unity bar and add a second one in a multi-monitor situation.

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

When you say "global menu" do you mean the launcher? You can use this askubuntu question, http://askubuntu.com/questions/10228/whats-the-right-terminology-for-unitys-ui-elements, to clarify your bug report. There's a known bug for right hand primary monitor set ups. I'll try and find it as I think this is probably a duplicate bug of that, but first could you confirm my suspicion of misused terminology?

[Forage (forage)]

Yeah, you are right, it should be called the launcher.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

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 742544, 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. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.