The greeter is displaying correctly now on my setup: both screens are set to 1680x1050 (at least that is the case with kernel 3.1; kernel 3.0 has a bug that powers down the external monitor when the gdm greeter or lightdm greeter runs).
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to lightdm in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/813566 Title: Greeter not displayed correctly on multi monitor setup Status in Light Display Manager: Triaged Status in Unity Greeter: Triaged Status in “lightdm” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in “unity-greeter” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Upon booting with an external monitor (1920x1200 resolution) hooked up to my laptop (1920x1080 resolution), the external display mirrors the laptop display, but garbles the screen (see screenshot). Using GDM, the external display is treated as extra screen space (greeter appears on laptop screen only), and is not garbled ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 Package: lightdm 0.4.3-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-5.6-generic 3.0.0-rc7 Uname: Linux 3.0.0-5-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Jul 20 07:52:42 2011 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Release Candidate amd64 (20100419.1) ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-13 (6 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/lightdm/+bug/813566/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp