Please support a completely black second screen
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ayatana Design |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Unity |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned | ||
unity (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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Wishlist
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Please support hiding the Unity panel if no application is shown on the screen. Having the panel always shown breaks my use case. I have two screens. The first is connected with a TFT and the second with a beamer that is used for presentations. In GNOME 2 I removed all panels from the second screen and set the wallpaper to black. That gave me a complete black screen when no presentation was shown. I like to create the same setup with Unity.
(Better) description from the duplicate bug report:
Unity secondary monitor menubar is an unconvenient setup for video art and gigs, and generally where the secondary display output is used with projectors in live shows.
While bug #907464 and bug #748539 are aimed to mitigate this issue solving at least a problem with fullscreen apps, that's not really a "projection mode" where most people really want to display just black on the secondary monitor even when there's no app on that, no menubar and no notifications should be displayed there.
Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Expired → New |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Expired → New |
Changed in unity: | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
description: | updated |
the pain purpose for the panel in secondary screen is so that there are menus visible since we use "Global Menus" in the panel. showing menus within app is not an option. You have any suggestions?