Display positions cannot be accurately set in settings
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
My displays are positioned in a somewhat uncommon way on my desk. I have 3 displays. 2 external monitors (same model, 16:9, 2k), and a laptop screen (1k, 16:9).
-One display is in portrait mode, on the left (#2).
-One display is in landscape mode, in the middle (#3).
-The laptop display is below the landscape monitor, in the middle (#1).
The middle of display #3 and display #1 are meant to be in the same line.
This means that there is a physical gap between display #2 and display #1.
It is extremely difficult to set the display positions up in this way in the ubuntu display settings though, because the displays snap together automatically when they are close, so when I move display #1 below the display #3, it automatically snaps to display #2 on the left, even though I don't want it. There is no way to move display #1 away just a tiny bit, the amount I need for it to be in the middle, leaving some gap from display #2, where I want it (please see attached screenshot).
Further to this, when I do manage to set up the displays this way by sheer luck, when I open the settings again, the displays are shown snapped together, so when I save again (without making any changes), the settings are lost.
As a sidenote, I think it would help if it was possible to somehow enlarge the display positioning section, as it does not fill out the space available for it - it would make it possible to make the space I need larger than the auto-snapping distance.
This was working fine in ubuntu 22 versions.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: xorg 1:7.7+23ubuntu2
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log'
CasperMD5CheckR
CompositorRunning: None
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Jul 29 16:25:24 2023
DistUpgraded: 2023-06-20 22:23:50,975 DEBUG Running PostInstallScript: '/usr/lib/
DistroCodename: lunar
DistroVariant: ubuntu
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
Intel Corporation HD Graphics 620 [8086:5916] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th Gen [17aa:224f]
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-04-25 (1189 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423)
MachineType: LENOVO 20HRCTO1WW
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
XDG_RUNTIME_
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-06-20 (38 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 11/24/2022
dmi.bios.release: 1.57
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: N1MET72W (1.57 )
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dmi.board.name: 20HRCTO1WW
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: SDK0J40709 WIN
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.
dmi.ec.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad X1 Carbon 5th
dmi.product.name: 20HRCTO1WW
dmi.product.sku: LENOVO_
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO
version.compiz: compiz N/A
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.114-1
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affects: | ubuntu → xorg (Ubuntu) |
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Incomplete → New |
This sounds like a GUI issue with gnome-control- center. Are you able to work around it by tweaking the x/y values in ~/.config/ monitors. xml instead?