Dual Display problems in 12.10 and Raring

[Colin Law]

On 4 March 2013 10:21, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Is anyone using dual displays in Raring alpha (or 12.10 for my second
> issue) seeing the problems that I am?  Firstly, with the launcher on
> the right hand display it is impossible to place anything (shortcuts,
> files etc) on the left hand display, they bounce back tot the right
> hand one when an attempt is made to place them there [1].  This is a
> new bug on Raring.  The second one however [2] is equally annoying and
> has been around since 12.10.  If, for example, two firefox windows are
> opened, one on each display, and the FF launcher icon is clicked then
> the focus always goes to the one on the same display as the launcher,
> whichever FF window last had the focus.  This is not specific to FF,
> it applies to any application.
>
> No-one so far has confirmed the bugs.  There was a big push to get
> dual display support working well for 12.04 (if I remember correctly)
> but things seem to have gone downhill since then.
>
> I am using Intel graphics.
>
> Colin
>
> [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1131929

I am pleased to report that bug 1 above (Dual displays - cannot place
desktop item to left of launcher) seems to have been fixed, though not
the one below.

Colin

> [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1043806