I found a partial fix for these symptoms: When launching xrand in a terminal I get the following output: xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default Screen 0: minimum 320 x 175, current 3360 x 1080, maximum 3360 x 1980 default connected 3360x1080+0+0 0mm x 0mm 1440x900 50.0 116.0 1360x768 51.0 52.0 1152x864 53.0 1024x768 54.0 55.0 56.0 57.0 960x600 58.0 960x540 59.0 840x525 60.0 61.0 62.0 832x624 63.0 800x600 64.0 65.0 66.0 67.0 68.0 69.0 70.0 800x512 71.0 720x450 72.0 720x400 73.0 700x525 74.0 75.0 76.0 680x384 77.0 78.0 640x512 79.0 80.0 81.0 640x480 82.0 83.0 84.0 85.0 86.0 87.0 640x400 88.0 640x350 89.0 576x432 90.0 91.0 92.0 93.0 94.0 95.0 96.0 512x384 97.0 98.0 99.0 100.0 101.0 416x312 102.0 400x300 103.0 104.0 105.0 106.0 107.0 360x200 108.0 320x240 109.0 110.0 111.0 112.0 320x200 113.0 320x175 114.0 3360x1080 115.0* 1920x1980 116.0 117.0 (1440x900 is the resolution of the laptop whereas the resolution of the external monitro is 1920x1080). The output of xrandr shows that is is possible to "deactivate" the external screen by issuing: xrandr --output default --mode 1440x900 Switching then back to the full resolution over both screen with xrandr --output default --mode 3360x1080 resolves the problem, at least for a short amount of time.
This is just a quick and dirty hack when the menu bar gets really stucked up and access to it is needed. I should maybe add that both monitors are alinged on top therefore I don't think that the observed behaviour here is direcly linked to the bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/778256 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/779038 Title: System tray is partially shown outside the monitor when in dual monitor -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
