problems with full-screen mode with multiple monitors in 12.10 (worked in 12.04)

[Leslie Anne Chatterton]

It isn't the wrong place, but not many have experienced that exact problem
and so can't help you. Me? I'm still on 12.04!

Email from my Google Nexus 7 tablet with "Jelly Bean"
On Nov 15, 2012 8:19 PM, "David Lang" <david at lang.hm> wrote:

> I haven't seen any response to this (although it is possible I missed it),
> is this the wrong place to post this sort of problem?
>
> David Lang
>
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2012, David Lang wrote:
>
>  in 12.04 when and app went to full-screen mode, it stayed on the monitor
>> that it started on.
>>
>> for example, if the app started on an external monitor/projector attached
>> to a laptop, the full-screen display ended up on the external
>> monitor/projector.
>>
>> in 12.10, the full-screen display now ends up on the primary monitor
>> only, no matter where the app started.
>>
>> This behavior started for me sometime during the 12.04 ->12.10
>> development cycle, but since I update frequently, started running the 12.10
>> beta (or was it alpha) early, and run the aurora version of firefox, I
>> can't say at this point exactly when the problem started.
>>
>> I initially ran into it with flash videos (which is another part of the
>> reason for not reporting it immediatly), but have since run into it with
>> libreoffice and okular.
>>
>> I seem to remember seeing a system settings option in the past that had
>> an option for where this would be displayed (current monitor, primary
>> monitor, or fixed selection), but am not seeing anything like that at this
>> point.
>>
>> I have run into this problem on my T61 laptop (nvidia with two screens)
>> and with my desktop at work (ATI with three screens). This happens with
>> both the proprietary and free drivers on both systems.
>>
>> I added a note along these lines to the launchpad bug #207480 as that
>> looks like it's someone using flash running into the same problem.
>>
>> David Lang
>>
>>
>>
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