The dash crosses the monitor boundary when resolution is 1152x864 or lesser width

Bug #765338 reported by Dawning
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Fix Released
Medium
Neil J. Patel
unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Unassigned

Bug Description

Description: Ubuntu Natty (development branch)
Release: 11.04
(2.6.38-8-generic x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux)
Updated completely to April 18, 2011.

I have a portrait style dual-head monitor setup. For me the Unity menu just barely sits in to the secondary monitor's area. It's a bit unpretty. When I maximize windows on this rig, they fill their respective monitor (by the way).

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Dawning (dawning) wrote :
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Dawning (dawning) wrote :

Also, I think this may be related...

When I click (what I believe is) the pop-out button in the lower-right corner of the Unity Menu, it fails to launch or do anything.

I've included a screencast of what I mean. Note that in the cast, you can tell where the two different monitors physically separate by where the wallpaper is divided.

Robert Roth (evfool)
affects: ubuntu → unity (Ubuntu)
Omer Akram (om26er)
tags: added: multimonitor
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Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar) wrote :

Now that's ugly. The dash should open up only on the primary monitor.

Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
summary: - Unity Menu Overlaps Screens
+ Unity Dash comes up in second monitor als
summary: - Unity Dash comes up in second monitor als
+ Unity Dash comes up in second monitor also
summary: - Unity Dash comes up in second monitor also
+ The dash crosses the monitor boundary when resolution is 1152x864
summary: - The dash crosses the monitor boundary when resolution is 1152x864
+ The dash crosses the monitor boundary when resolution is 1152x864 or
+ lesser width
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Mo-Yu Mandy Zhou (zhou-mandy) wrote :

It would be great if the dash were resizable. It takes up a little too much room in my current setup in my opinion, and allowing for this would address this bug.

David Barth (dbarth)
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Medium
assignee: nobody → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
milestone: none → 4.20.0
Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
Changed in unity:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :
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This bug was fixed in the package unity - 4.20.0-0ubuntu1

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unity (4.20.0-0ubuntu1) oneiric; urgency=low

  * New upstream release + cherry-pick:
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PluginClassHandler<UnityWindow,
      CompWindow, 0>::get() (LP: #835259)
    - dash does not scroll down during keyboard navigation (LP: #852506)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in _XFreeEventCookies() (LP: #851472)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_object_unref() (LP: #847512)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in nux::WindowCompositor::MouseEventCycle()
      (LP: #831678)
    - compiz and X can disagree on the stacking order (LP: #845719)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in unity::dash::LensView::OnResultAdded()
      (LP: #855252)
    - CCSM crashes Unity (LP: #861643)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in PrivateWindow::addWindowStackChanges()
      (LP: #862115)
    - Touch - When dragging a window with a 3 touch, dragging to the top
      should show the maximize gesture preview. (LP: #750316)
    - compiz crashed with SIGABRT in raise() (LP: #750386)
    - Launcher - Spread should not affect the state of window (LP: #764673)
    - [UIFe] Add system setting icon to Launcher (LP: #764744)
    - compiz crashed with SIGABRT in raise() [Merely unchecking the Unity
      plugin is enough to crash Compiz...] (LP: #823386)
    - Launcher - does not hide if revealed from top 24px of the left edge of
      the screen (LP: #835989)
    - Clickable areas of previously active window remains on 'Show Desktop'
      (LP: #836325)
    - Cannot search for some apps in Dash (LP: #837075)
    - Dash - Search box cursor not responding correctly to focus (LP: #839704)
    - Multi-display: Application menu only showing on primary screen
      (LP: #845212)
    - Ellipsized values in size filter (LP: #851359)
    - (oneiric) dash result expansions don't display icons (LP: #854615)
    - run the wrong command if enter is hit before the view is refreshed
      (LP: #856205)
    - Java application windows cut-off/truncated/not displayed properly
      (LP: #857201)
    - compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in sigc::signal_base::impl() (LP: #831769)
    - Minimizing a window should switch focus to the windows underneath it
      (breaks restore) (LP: #859885)
    - Ratings filter allows ratings > 1.0 (LP: #861255)
    - Serious Unity problem stuck in spread when dragging icons back to the
      dash (LP: #862045)
    - Must use hardware keyboard to perform search for applications in Unity
      (LP: #739812)
    - Files lens should also search Downloads (LP: #748915)
    - The dash crosses the monitor boundary when resolution is 1152x864 or
      lesser width (LP: #765338)
    - Dash - dragging a file outside of the Desktop Dash should close the Dash
      (LP: #764641)
    - Text in Dash search text box overflows and doesn't crop with longer
      strings; RtL input starts in wrong place (LP: #834765)
    - Where the average background colour is either very light or dark, adjust
      this value to darken/lighten in order to preserve readability
      (LP: #837993)
    - Dash does not resize when I connect to an external display and mirror
      displays (LP: #83813...

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Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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