gnome-display-properties should allow the primary screen to be chosen

Bug #216144 reported by jean-baptiste
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gnome-control-center
Fix Released
Medium
gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
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Declined for Lucid by Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

hello,

It is not possible to choose screen where we want to display video with xv.
For exemple, i have a laptop and a big flat tv with vga input. So i want to watch my video on this TV. I use the new "gnome-display-properties" to configure the tv and the TV is well configure. Unfortunately, xv is set on my laptop screen, so the video is display on my laptop screen and the tv stay black.

I think it could be great to have an option in "gnome-display-properties" to choose the screen where xv should be display. Maybe by using "xvattr" like i do now in command line.

it is not directly a bug, but i think a lot of people use a secondary screen to watch video....

Have a nice day

le coz jean-baptiste

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Kenneth Venken (kenneth-venken) wrote :

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote : Re: no possibility to choose xv screen

There is http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=564713 upstream about selecting the primary screen

summary: - [Hardy]no possibility to choose xv screen
+ no possibility to choose xv screen
Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
status: New → Triaged
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
summary: - no possibility to choose xv screen
+ should allow to select the primary screen
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Dominic Evans (oldmanuk) wrote :

fyi, I believe xrandr supports setting this via the '--primary' per-output option

summary: - should allow to select the primary screen
+ gnome-display-properties should allow the primary screen to be chosen
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mefiX (mefix) wrote :

as i said here
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/353186

those xrandr flags don't influence the behaviour of gnome!

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bakvendt (larseik) wrote :

In Ubuntu 9.04 this was ok but in 9.10 beta I manually have to type:
"xrandr --output HDMI1 --preferred --primary". Then I can fn+F8 to switch display as I want. Don't really know if
Dell E5500 with Intel Mobile 4 series graphics.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Upstream bug has been marked as duplicate of bug https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=588041.

Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Confirmed → Unknown
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Unknown → Confirmed
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trampster (trampster) wrote :

OK heres is the thing,

ubuntu claims to be linux for human beings... as long as I have to use the command line just to set my primary monitor then ubuntu has failed.

And don't be all "its an upstream issue" because they are not the onces claiming to be for human begins, you are.

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Christian Loos (cloos) wrote :

If you want to set a display as primary, just go in ~/.config/monitor.xml and change at the desired display the value if the primary key from no to yes.

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Larry Siden (lsiden) wrote : Re: [Bug 216144] Re: gnome-display-properties should allow the primary screen to be chosen

Thank you. I think it's been resolved for a while now, but I appreciate
your responding to me.

Larry Siden,
Westside Consulting LLC
westside-consulting.com
734-926-9614

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Christian Loos <email address hidden> wrote:

> If you want to set a display as primary, just go in
> ~/.config/monitor.xml and change at the desired display the value if the
> primary key from no to yes.
>
> --
> gnome-display-properties should allow the primary screen to be chosen
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216144
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of a duplicate bug.
>

Changed in gnome-control-center:
importance: Unknown → Medium
Changed in gnome-control-center:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Ralph Meijer (ralphmeijer) wrote :

Even thought the gnome bug has been closed as fixed in Gnome 3, the solution of having to drag the "menu bar" to another monitor seems suboptimal to me.

Whenever I hook up an external monitor to my laptop, and have to explicitly enable it (because I disabled it before) in the Monitor Preferences, I really want to make it the primary monitor in that same dialog. A checkbox, as proposed elsewhere, that does the same thing as "xrandr --output VGA1 --primary", along with some kind of marking in the monitor arrangement panel.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

upstream comment

"This was fixed in GNOME 3. Now you can change the primary output by dragging
the menu bar from output to output."

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) → Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)
assignee: Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) → nobody
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Ralph Meijer (ralphmeijer) wrote :

@Sebastien Bacher: I mentioned this comment already in #11, and this 'fix' doesn't address the issue this ticket describes.

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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

If my bug is a duplicate (760704) then this bug needs to be re-opened. This is still a problem on unity. You can't drag the unity panel between windows.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug is "fix commited" not "fix released", it's fixed in GNOME3 which is not in natty, you will be able to dnd the screens in the gnome-display-properties dialog to change their order

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
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Mario Limonciello (superm1) wrote :

As I understand it, the fix in gnome 3 won't apply to unity though unless the unity panel is actually a gnome 3 panel.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

ok, let's check exactly how they are doing it and if that can apply easily to unity but that's for next cycle

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Triaged
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

The issue is fixed in GNOME3 and Oneiric

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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