Applications change viewport while changing or rotating monitor
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Unity |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
BUG:
A laptop is often connected to an external monitor. Switching to the external monitor, the several applications opened in the several Viewports change their position passing (apparently randomly) to another Viewport.
The same occours while rotating the screen (for example in convertible tablets).
EFFECT:
This cause the user to spend some time in re-organizing the applications in the several work areas.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION:
Of course, applications must change their position due to different resolutions or height and witdh of the screen, but this effect could be limited my introducing something like that:
- Bind the applications to their Viewport / Work Area while rotating / changing monitor
and
- referring their coordinates to the center of the viewport where they are.
HOW TO REPRODUCE:
- open several different applications in seveal viewports (empathy and nautilus in #1; firefox and its download window in #2; evince and a shell in #3; thunderbird in #4)
- use settings>monitor to rotate the screen, and change monitor
| Michisteiner (michisteiner) wrote | #1 |
| Michisteiner (michisteiner) wrote | #2 |
I encounter the same problem: connecting to an external monitor (in addition to my laptop display) messes up completely my carefully laid out windows. by ``merging'' some workspaces. disconnecting the monitor does ``unmerge'' but (a) on my 3x3 layout all three rows saw a shift right by one workspace and (b) some windows moved up to the top of the screen with the top hidden under the global menu. This is rather annoying and completely prevents using external monitor efficiently on a temporary basis. Would be nice if it would stay as in gnome 2 that all windows stay on their workspace and ideally on the laptop display when an additional monitor is attached.