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Balou splash inconsistencies with dual screen/twinview
Status:
RESOLVED: DUPLICATE
Product:
Xfce4-session
Component:
General

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Description Vince C. 2012-12-07 23:02:38 CET
Hi.

I have two monitors connected to my Nvidia video card. I've noticed Balou splash screen follows the mouse (not a big deal, it's not the reason I'm filing this bug), i.e. Balou splash screen appears on the monitor my mouse pointer is resting on. However the background appears on the main monitor, i.e. the one on which the desktop icons and panels appear.

For example: my main monitor is above the other one. My desktop icons appear on the top-most monitor. My login manager is Lxdm. So I place my mouse pointer so as it appears on the bottom monitor and then log in. As expected Balou splash appears on the bottom monitor but the upper one is all black (my Balou theme, gentoo-xfce4, has a black background).

What should happen is: the background and splash should appear on the same monitor, i.e. the bottom one in this case.

Here's how I configured my monitors in xorg.conf.d:

Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "twinview"
    Screen      0  "screen-0" 0 0
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "monitor-0"
    ModelName      "DELL ST2410"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 76.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "gts-450"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce GTS 450"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "screen-0"
    Monitor        "monitor-0"
    Device         "gts-450"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "CRT-1"
    Option         "metamodes" "CRT: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP: nvidia-auto-select +0+1080"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

CRT is the main monitor, DFP is the bottom one.
Comment 1 Jérôme Guelfucci editbugs 2012-12-26 10:19:22 CET
Thanks for reporting this, it was already in our database.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2952 ***

Bug #9606

Reported by:
Vince C.
Reported on: 2012-12-07
Last modified on: 2012-12-26

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Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
3 users

Version

Version:
4.10.0

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