Comment 60 for bug 661450

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Omer Akram (om26er) wrote : Re: [Bug 661450] Re: Support for multiple monitors broken

bug 795454 bug 795458 bug 795459 bug 750481 were fixes for
dual-monitor cases in the latest SRU in natty proposed. Read the
latest comments of Daniel Manrique who tested the fixes and pointed of
a few remaining issues still, I thought they were reported but they
are not. Would be nice if you report them.

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Jimmy Merrild Krag <email address hidden> wrote:
> Yes, I installed the proposed version of Unity, but I have not had the chance to test it yet. However, that was not the point of my question.
> If this bug is invalid anyway, and there are separate bugs for each issue, then a post linking to these separate bugs would be found by people googling their way to this bug, and they could go on from there, and they wouldn't post to this bug asking for status.
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> Title:
>  Support for multiple monitors broken
>
> Status in System76:
>  New
> Status in Unity:
>  Invalid
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
>  Invalid
>
> Bug description:
>  Binary package hint: unity
>
>  In Ubuntu Netbook 10.10 running on a Lenovo S10, support for multiple
>  monitors is completely broken. Once another monitor is plugged in, the
>  Monitors settings program successfully detects its name and
>  resolution, but it fails to extend the workspace to fill that monitor.
>
>  Instead, it can only show the cursor at the corner of the second
>  monitor if it is placed there, but the mouse cursor does not "enter"
>  the second monitor.
>
>  If one tries to change the relative positions of the monitors, both
>  screens lock. If one sets the monitors to display the same image, the
>  same thing happens and it only comes back after a reboot.
>
>  ProblemType: Bug
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
>  Package: unity 0.2.46-0ubuntu5
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.34-generic 2.6.35.4
>  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
>  NonfreeKernelModules: wl
>  Architecture: i386
>  Date: Fri Oct 15 17:30:06 2010
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Netbook 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
>  ProcEnviron:
>   LANGUAGE=pt_BR:pt:en
>   LANG=pt_BR.utf8
>   SHELL=/bin/bash
>  SourcePackage: unity
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