notication area only appears in one monitor

Bug #742530 reported by Alex Launi
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Unity
Fix Released
Low
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unity-2d
Fix Released
Low
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unity (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
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unity-2d (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
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Bug Description

In a multi monitor environment, when a white listed notification area icon is present, it only shows up on the primary monitor rather than on both like the rest of the indicators

Alex Launi (alexlauni)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Jorge Castro (jorge)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 742530] Re: notication area only appears in one monitor

I think this may be tricky because of the nasty hackiness of the old
systray; if it's anything other than trivial, it's wontfix.

Changed in unity-2d:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Confirmed
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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Note that in unity-2d at the moment there is only one single instance of the panel on the primary monitor. This is tracked by bug #681101.

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Alex Launi (alexlauni) wrote :

I don't think we should mark it wontfix, but just leave it open for someone who cares enough let fix it. It's certainly a very low priority bug, but that's why I marked it low.

Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

Could someone post a screenshot and/or steps to reproduce?

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Felix Dreissig (f30) wrote :

To my surprise, it looks like this is fixed for Oneiric.

I unfortunately can't provide a screenshot and to reproduce you will need at least two monitors as well as a Natty system, but on Natty it used to behave as described above: The Unity panel's emulation of the old GNOME2 notification area wasn't shown on all monitors (even if there were multiple panels), but only on one.
Which monitor that one was, iirc changed from "the most left one" to "the primary one". But I'm absolutely not sure about the last point, might also be that still the most left one was used.

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote :

The legacy notifications have changed since natty, which may be why the issue no longer exists in oneiric or precise. Thanks for confirming the issue is gone in newer releases. Since the priority is Low, it's doubtful this is worth an SRU for natty, so I think we can just close the bug out at this time.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
Changed in unity-2d (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in unity-2d:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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