Comment 42 for bug 331369

but the notify area is *NOT* under my gnome panel. It's on the wrong
screen, which twinview *DOES* recognize as a separate monitor. I
specifically gave up special effects/randr to have two separate monitors.

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 4:44 PM, jcornwall <email address hidden> wrote:

> I've taken some time to investigate this properly.
>
> This problem will arise on an NVIDIA TwinView configuration when there
> is no GNOME panel at the top of the screen; either through being removed
> or moved elsewhere. notify-osd is programmed to follow the top panel
> only, quite explicitly and I believe this design was intentional. The
> fallback path attempts to place the OSD at the top-right of the desktop
> area - which spans all monitors in a TwinView configuration and hence
> appears on the rightmost monitor.
>
> I am not sure what the correct solution is. I have made a private patch
> to fix this on my system but it is not suitable for wider release.
>
> --
> regression vs. notification-daemon: positioning when multiple screens are
> available
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331369
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