lah7
11 February 2018 10:06
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It's been a long while since I used multiple monitors with MATE, but pretty sure 16.04 (with Marco/Compiz 0.9 ) listed all the windows on the current workspace (including secondary monitor).
tiox:
What's going on here?
I think simply, MATE isn't designed in mind for this use case in mind. It works okay if you have a primary display and not fussed for panels on secondary displays.
With multiple monitors in general, I've come across like windows flying about on connection changes or dialogues opening on the wrong screen - but these are likely the window manager's responsibility.
I did some digging to see what issues are outstanding:
Hello MATE Community!
I’m a long time MATE user and just wanted to share with you the reason why I’m not able to use it on my work computer, though I would love to.
Mainly I use my work laptop with an external display. When I need to go to a meeting, I just unplug the monitor and go.
This is when the panel from the external monitor just gets dropped on my laptop display as an additional panel above my regular panel. That way I have duplicate panels and even when I reattach the external monito…
opened 04:05PM - 05 May 16 UTC
My setup is as follows: I've got a PC that is connected to a monitor and a TV. T… he monitor is used for work and the TV when watching movies, photos, etc.
The problem is that when one works at the monitor and somebody else switches on the TV to watch regular TV channels, the panels get moved to the TV, where one can't see them.
I expect the panels to stay on their screen when a new screen is plugged in / switched on. Ideally this should be the default, but I'm also interested to hear about ways to configure this.
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opened 11:02PM - 12 Dec 13 UTC
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I just did a clean install of mint 16, and configured a second xscreen by modify… ing xorg.conf .
When mate comes up, it correctly has a panel at the bottom of each screen, and I can add widgets to each.
However, any interaction with the widgets on the second screen shows up on the first screen rather than the second.
For instance, if I add a menu to the second screen's panel, then click on it, the popup which would normally show up above it shows up in the exact same location on the first screen, even if the first screen's panel does not contain a menu widget.
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Problem with panels when using multiple monitors
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mate-panel/+bug/1714211
I think the best bet is to raise this "clone/duplicate panels across multiple monitors" feature like how Windows 10 does it upstream on their GitHub .