Comment 12 for bug 192009

On Wed, 2009-04-01 at 16:11 +0000, nickolai wrote:
> This change makes the multi-screen experience strictly worse in at least
> one scenario, as follows.
>
> In my case, I have an external VGA screen that's smaller than my LVDS
> screen, and physically placed above it. After running "xrandr --output
> VGA --auto --above LVDS", my desktop extends upward to include the VGA
> screen, but gnome-panel remains at the top of the LVDS screen (since
> it's larger), in the middle of my logical desktop. This seems odd,
> since windows that span both screens are now interrupted by a gnome-
> panel.

I don't see that this would have changed with this patch would it?
Weren't both panels placed on the same screen before this change as
well?

> To make matters worse, when a new window is created and placed on the
> LVDS screen, the window is aligned to the top of the LVDS screen, as
> opposed to the bottom of the gnome-panel. As a result, the window's
> title bar is placed below the overlapping gnome-panel, making it
> difficult to move the window.

This part I see as well, but I'm trying to work out which component
is at fault to file a bug.

Thanks,

James