Bug 669908

Summary:	layout of ui elements wrong with multiple different height displays
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Alon Levy <alevy>
Component:	gnome-shell	Assignee:	Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	19	CC:	dblechte, maxamillion, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Alon Levy 2011-01-15 18:10:00 UTC

Description of problem:
I have two displays, one builtin to the laptop and another external, the builtin is 1600x900 and the external is 1920x1080.

When using both (using one I don't see those problems), depending on the geometry I set in display settings, I either get the top (watch, Activities, status icons) invisible (but accessible, as proven by moving the mouse 'out' of the screen and pressing in the middle, showing the calendar popout), or the bottom not easily accesible (because the 'activation' area is suddenly not next to the 'displayed-when-activated' area).

This can be easily reproduced with xrandr.

The "top is showing fine but bottom hidden" config:

(btw, gnome-shell --xephyr seems to be broken, tried to use it for recreating this in a more managaeble engironment)

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3520 x 1080, maximum 8192 x 8192
LVDS1 connected 1600x900+1920+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 193mm
   1600x900       60.2*+   50.0  
   1024x768       60.0  
   800x600        60.3     56.2  
   640x480        59.9  
VGA1 connected 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 497mm x 292mm
   1920x1080      60.0*+
   1600x1200      60.0  
   1600x900       60.0  
   1280x1024      75.0     60.0  
   1280x720       60.0  
   1024x768       75.1     60.0  
   800x600        75.0     60.3  
   640x480        75.0     60.0  
   720x400        70.1  

If I use:
xrandr --output LVDS1 --pos 1920x180 (moving the right screen, LCD, the screen with the top and bottom ui elements, down 180) then suddenly:
 * the activities is still in the correct position
 * the status bar is also in the correct position!

If I change the relative location using  

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
If the two screens are set like [A] (below, for legibility of this report), it is 100% reproducible.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Connect second screen
2. Setup like A (this was the default)
3.
  
Actual results:
Can't see Activities button and top bar.

Expected results:
Can see them

Additional info:
[A] setup is:

********
*      * ******
*      * *    *
******** ******

Top showing, buttom hidden setup is:

******** ******
*      * *    *
*      * ******
********

Comment 1 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 18:53:39 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

Comment 3 Ryan Lerch 2014-12-05 15:09:26 UTC

This bug was filed against an older version of Fedora, which is not longer supported. 

Closing as INSUFFUCUENT_DATA -- please reopen this bug if this is still occuring on a non EOLed version of Fedora.