Bug#993752: lightdm-gtk-greeter: works badly with 2 screens of different widths (laptop + external monitor)
Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter
Version: 2.0.8-2
Severity: normal
I have a laptop with two 4K external monitors (bigger than the laptop
screen). Just after boot, only the laptop screen is active, and
everything is OK (well, except that I would prefer an external monitor
to be detected automatically, but that's another issue).
After logging out, the laptop screen and an external monitor are both
active (the driver[*] cannot handle 3 screens, thus the other external
monitor is off, which is OK).
So, basically, the configuration is 2 screens of different widths,
which matters in particular for the menu bar. By default, the width
of the 4K monitor is taken into account. But when I use a menu, the
display temporarily switches to the width of the laptop screen. This
doesn't prevent me from using the menu, but it is a bit annoying and
makes the menu a bit less easy to use.
[*] This is the proprietary Nvidia driver, as the nouveau driver
does not work with more than one screen.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=POSIX, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter depends on:
ii libayatana-indicator3-7 0.8.4-1
ii libc6 2.31-17
ii libcairo2 1.16.0-5
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.40.2-2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.68.4-1
ii libgtk-3-0 3.24.30-3
ii liblightdm-gobject-1-0 1.26.0-7
ii libx11-6 2:1.7.2-1
Versions of packages lightdm-gtk-greeter recommends:
ii adwaita-icon-theme 40.1.1-2
ii desktop-base 11.0.3
ii gnome-themes-extra 3.28-1
ii policykit-1 0.105-31
lightdm-gtk-greeter suggests no packages.
-- Configuration Files:
/etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf changed:
[greeter]
icon-size=64
xft-dpi=160
indicators=~host;~spacer;~clock;~spacer;~session;~language;~a11y;~power
clock-format=%F %T
-- no debconf information
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