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[Seth <1292398@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hah. I've lived with this annoying bug for over a year now, only to bump
into this unresolved beauty by accident.

Interestingly,

 - this made me require to babysit any use of the family PC (fixing their screen resolutions on each login). It also made me force Unity onto my clients because that's what Canonical unilaterally chose
 - There were also annoying effects with switching user sessions (losing the monitor layout again) and 
 - sometimes things just getting awry spontaneously during a session (symptom invariably apparent keyboard lockup; needed to change to another VT to forcibly `gnome-shell --replace`. Then the monitors would be swapped (annoying mousing) and unfixable (something about dbus unreachable). Also, keyboard input would get duplicated on another VT (which has lead me to finding entire private chat conversations in /root/.bash_history on two occasions.... Luckily I rarely chat "rm -rf" or similar)

Now, nvidia card gave the ghost, meaning I get the builtin intel chipset
to handle the graphics. Problem vanished! I just found this bug finding
a solution to the problem that I can't find the place to configure where
the GDM greeter is shown (if I switch off the secondary monitor, I don't
see the greeter).

I second the sentiment that it's aggravating to see Canonical dismiss
high-impact bugs like this on the sole reason that "We only support
Unity".

This is by far not the only upstart/timing related bug (I vividly
remember the issue where X would start on the wrong vt, so that "random
keys" would tear down the desktop without warning). The fact that this
one seems to manifest with other DMs shouldn't really make it less of an
issue.

It's at 228 affected users now. And if more people - like me - have
become so used to having to live with utterly broken UX since they opt
out of Unity (for clearly superior Gnome3 - it's actually responsive, no
advertisements) that they only flag as "also affects me" after they
accidentally bump into it when searching for other things... The real
number is going to be a bit higher.

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Title:
  Second screen position isn't saved from one session to another

Status in elementary OS:
  Won't Fix
Status in Gnome Settings Daemon:
  New
Status in GNOME Shell:
  Confirmed
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  Confirmed
Status in gnome-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged
Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  (Noticed on Ubuntu 14.04 beta 1 GNOME)
  At work I have a second screen, which I prefer to virtually put on the left side of my laptop screen.
  Using gnome-control-center I can change the position of the second without problem.
  But when I disconnect the second screen (to work on another place) and then connect it again
  OR if I just power off the laptop and turn it on again,
  the second screen position is set back to the default right position.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu53
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-17.37-generic 3.13.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-17-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.13.3-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Mar 14 08:50:00 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-03-01 (12 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140226)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 29.5-0ubuntu2

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