Unity menu on 1 screen only?

Colin Law clanlaw at googlemail.com
Thu Feb 23 11:12:38 UTC 2012


On 23 February 2012 10:38, Koh Choon Lin <2choonlin at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am running 11.10/64-bit on an AMD system with an nVidia GeForce 230
>>>> and I have 2 top panels, one on each screen, but one launcher, on the
>>>> left screen only. This means 2 different apps can have a menu bar
>>>> each, so long as they are on different screens, which is exactly the
>>>> way I like it.
>>>
>>> I am running 11.10 AMD64, on Intel integrated graphics to 2 monitors.
>>> I am hoping to have 2 top panels and one LHS launcher.
>>>
>>> Currently, I have panel and launcher on LHS, nothing on RHS.
>>
>> You should see two top panels, one on each monitor.  If the two
>> monitors are of different vertical resolution have you aligned the
>> /tops/ of the screens in System Setting > Displays.  There was a bug
>> (I don't know whether it has been fixed) that caused problems if you
>> try to line up the bottom rather than the top.
>>
>> Also you could try unity-2d rather than 3d to see if that makes a
>> difference.  Click on the gear cog by the password field on logon
>> screen and select 2d.
>
> I am already using Unity 2D. LHS is 1920x1080 while RHS is 1280x1024.
> Aligning them top/bottom under "Display" has no effect.

Another thing to check is whether you see the same effect if you log
on as a different user (make a new one if necessary).

I can't see anything on launchpad so I think best that you report it
as a bug against unity-2d.

Colin




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