Comment 14 for bug 441880

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Jim Louvau (jlouvau) wrote : Re: [Bug 441880] Re: splash displays on wrong monitor

No worries, that's why I posted it as cosmetic. Have fun at UDS :-)

On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 14:40 +0000, Cody Russell wrote:
> To be honest, this is not a high priority right now for me. UDS is
> starting next week, and as the bug description says very clearly this is
> just a cosmetic bug.
>
> I'm pretty sure I've described this elsewhere, but we don't currently
> query the primary monitor as there wasn't yet API to do this (which I
> now have a patch for, but it won't make it into Karmic).
>
> In the case of the primary monitor being your left monitor, xsplash
> happens to be correct (just incidentally), but gdm displays on the right
> monitor. That seems like maybe a gdm bug. In the case of the primary
> monitor being on the right, xsplash can be fixed using my new API patch.
>