Unity

Notification Area appear on both monitors

Bug #762348 reported by Oweoqi on 2011-04-16

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Unity	Expired	Wishlist	Unassigned
	unity (Ubuntu)	Won't Fix	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Installed Natty from fresh yesterday and I now have the Notification Area on both of my monitors. I've attached a sudo lshw report if needed.

If this is a feature, can it be turned off? It seems unnecessary.

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Oweoqi (oweoqi) wrote on 2011-04-16:

sudo lshw Edit (21.3 KiB, text/plain)

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Alex Launi (alexlauni) wrote on 2011-05-02:

this is intended, adding a design task.

Changed in unity:
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Incomplete
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete
tags:	added: needs-design
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

Bryce Harrington (bryce) on 2011-12-21

tags:

added: precise

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John Lea (johnlea) wrote on 2011-12-21:

See http://design.canonical.com/the-toolkit/unity-multi-monitor-interactions/

Notifications should only appear on the monitor where the pointer is currently positioned

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2012-02-14:

Text from the specification:

"""
2.13. Notify OSD

Notifications appear on the display which currently has focus.

If the Presentation Mode option has been checked, then notifications will not be shown on any display, until the option is unchecked (from the Display Setup panel or from System Settings-User Interface), or until the user next logs in.
"""

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	Incomplete → New

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Bryce Harrington (bryce) wrote on 2012-02-14:

Closing as wontfix since the behavior is by design.

If for some reason you're seeing two notifications (one on each monitor), that would be a legitimate bug - in this case please file a new bug report using 'ubuntu-bug unity' and attach a screenshot that shows the problem.

On the other hand, if you are seeing the intended behavior but just want a configuration setting to change it to some other behavior, please file a new bug report (again, using 'ubuntu-bug unity') with a proposal for what to be added.