Monday 14 May 2012

GNOME 3 on two monitors

I've been using the GNOME 3 desktop in Linux for a while now, since they made it available in Ubuntu 11.10 and I've now upgraded both my work and home machines to 12.04 LTS. Alas when I got to work, I plugged in my external monitor, ran the NVidia configuration and all was well until I switched to a new desktop and found the windows from the first desktop on the second monitor were still visible.

It appears the default behavior in GNOME 3 is only enable switching desktops on the primary monitor, anyway it didn't take a lot of googling especially as Greg Cordt's blog was the first result http://gregcor.com/2011/05/07/fix-dual-monitors-in-gnome-3-aka-my-workspaces-are-broken/ Thanks Greg.

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