** Bug watch added: bugzilla.gnome.org/ #780078
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780078
** Changed in: gnome-shell
Importance: Medium => Unknown
** Changed in: gnome-shell
Status: Incomplete => Unknown
** Changed in: gnome-shell
Remote watch: GNOME Bug Tracker #780078 => bugzilla.gnome.org/ #780078
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1682542
Title:
Add support for top bars on all monitors to allow for multi-monitor
support in primary extensions - apps-menu, places-menu, topbar, etc
Status in GNOME Shell:
Unknown
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
Triaged
Bug description:
This issue will effectively be a regression in desktop usage once
Ubuntu switches from Unity to Gnome Shell. Gnome Shell does not work
well with multiple monitors unlike every other desktop environment
except Budgie, which is switching away from GTK/Gnome to Qt with
Budgie 11 due out in the next month or two.
I reported it upstream last month but it does not appear to have much
traction at the moment.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780078
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It would be nice if the primary included gnome-shell extensions, eg apps-menu
and places-menu (and by extension the topbar) supported multi-monitor similar
to how the bottom bar 'window-list' currently does. This was easy to achieve on
Gnome 2 and now via MATE (out of the box) but there does not appear to be any
way to do this with Gnome 3. This also leads to there not being a way to do
this via 'Gnome Classic'. Even Windows finally (in W10) does this better out of
the box than Gnome 3.
BTW - Intel has supported IGP triple head since Ivy Bridge (2012) so
it is very cheap to deploy a triple head system (~ $200 for 3 1080p
monitors). AMD supports up to quad head in their IGPs.
This has been blocking me from moving to Gnome 3 since its release and I
finally decided to write a bug report about it. I have had all multi-monitor
systems since prior to 2004.
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And see comments #11 and #14 from Florian.
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No, you don't want that in the extensions. Each extension is separate, so
what you are asking for here is that apps-menu and places-menu *both* add top
bars to non-primary monitors. We are definitely not going to add two or more
stacked panels at the top.
What you probably want instead is an option in gnome-shell to put top bars on
non-primary monitors, and the aforementioned extensions to handle that case.
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"
Well, we've established what you want, but that doesn't necessarily mean that
we'll implement it.
So far the reasoning seems to be:
- you really want the feature
- GNOME 2 / Windows has it
Unlike the case of the window list, nothing in the top bar (except for
the app menu to some extent) is tied to a particular monitor, so
there's a much weaker case here IMHO.
(I'll also note that this wouldn't be a "cheap" option, but require work on
lots of details throughout the stack - we'd need to figure out the overview
(only include the activities button on the primary monitor? or allow an
overview on any monitor?), get API to control the brightness of a particular
monitor (rather than the built-in one), don't use "the monitor with the top
bar" as indicator for the primary monitor in Settings, ...)
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