I opened system >> preferences >> monitor, which showed a little note that it will open the nvidia-settings instead of the regular gnome monitor dialog. I then followed your idea but a bit differently as it did not work first. I marked the laptop screen as the primary monitor and now the backgrounds do not overlap. I saved the changes to xorg.conf.
However, when I logged out and the login screen appeared, the little box where you enter your password was not centered on the big monitor but instead centered at the top-left region of the screen, as if it was centered around 1280x800 resolution and not the 1650x960 resolution. I fixed this again after editing the xorg.conf file and settings the DFP resolution to 1650x960 and now the backgrounds do not overlap, the login screen's box is centered, and when the external monitor is not attached the laptop monitor is working correctly. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/640609 Title: desktop background has wrong size when zoomed with laptop and external monitor attached _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
