Bug 465902 - Fullscreen windows open on secondary monitor
Summary: Fullscreen windows open on secondary monitor
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: metacity
Version: 9
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-07 01:46 UTC by Cameron Zemek
Modified: 2014-06-18 09:10 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2009-07-14 17:19:20 UTC
Type: ---
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
XOrg configuration (2.70 KB, text/plain)
2008-10-07 01:47 UTC, Cameron Zemek
no flags Details
Xorg log after startup (17.22 KB, text/plain)
2008-10-07 01:47 UTC, Cameron Zemek
no flags Details
Xorg configuration with primary monitor LeftOf secondary (WORKS) (2.88 KB, text/plain)
2008-10-15 05:22 UTC, Cameron Zemek
no flags Details
Patch to fix metacity of this bug (2.37 KB, text/plain)
2008-10-15 05:55 UTC, Cameron Zemek
no flags Details

Description Cameron Zemek 2008-10-07 01:46:16 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.2) Gecko/2008092318 Fedora/3.0.2-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0.2

If I exit an application such as Gedit or Firefox when it is fullscreen, the next time I open it, it opens on the secondary monitor instead of the primary.

The weird thing is, if I Unmaximize the window it goes back to the primary. Then If I Maximize it goes back to the secondary. If I move the window when its on the primary, then maximize it stays on the primary.

Also it does it if I open a new firefox window when I already have a firefox window fullscreen on the primary. So this is getting pretty annoying.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Gedit or Firefox
2. Fullscreen the application on the primary monitor
3. Exit the application
4. Open the application again
Actual Results:  
The application is fullscreen on the secondary monitor

Expected Results:  
The application is fullscreen on primary monitor

Using the NVIDIA Driver 173.14.12 from the nvidia website

Comment 1 Cameron Zemek 2008-10-07 01:47:03 UTC
Created attachment 319607 [details]
XOrg configuration

Comment 2 Cameron Zemek 2008-10-07 01:47:42 UTC
Created attachment 319608 [details]
Xorg log after startup

Comment 3 Cameron Zemek 2008-10-07 04:53:39 UTC
Also I have noticed it does actually render on the primary display before it ends up on the secondary display.

Comment 4 Cameron Zemek 2008-10-15 05:22:17 UTC
Created attachment 320386 [details]
Xorg configuration with primary monitor LeftOf secondary (WORKS)

After getting tired of this bug I started playing around with my dual monitor setup. Found that having the primary LeftOf secondary resolves this issue. Unfortunately I can't have my primary physically to the left of the secondary.

Comment 5 Cameron Zemek 2008-10-15 05:23:22 UTC
Also tested Xinerama and found it display the same behaviour as TwinView. Seems Gnome wants to maximize new windows on Screen0

Comment 6 Cameron Zemek 2008-10-15 05:29:06 UTC
Sorry, I meant to say it seems Gnome wants to maximize new windows on the screen that contains 0,0 co-ords.

Comment 7 Cameron Zemek 2008-10-15 05:55:49 UTC
Created attachment 320390 [details]
Patch to fix metacity of this bug

I found reference to similar problem in the gnome bug database, and found this patch in gnome's svn. I download the SRPM for metacity and added the attached patch to the RPM build.

# rpm -Uvh --force /usr/src/redhat/i386/metacity-2.22.0-5.fc9.i386.rpm

Then restarted X. Its fixed :)

Comment 8 François Cami 2009-02-19 00:59:12 UTC
Switching to ASSIGNED.

Comment 9 Bug Zapper 2009-06-10 02:54:12 UTC
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Comment 10 Bug Zapper 2009-07-14 17:19:20 UTC
Fedora 9 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-07-10. Fedora 9 is 
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