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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  Selecting primary monitor is not intuitive

Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Today when I plugged in my external monitor the Activities
  bar/clock/etc (is there a name for this?) was on the wrong screen. It
  took me 20 minutes of plugging/unplugging, restarting X, searching and
  reading forums until I came across this AskUbuntu post [1]. The
  answer, to drag the black bar to the other display in Settings >
  Displays, had been sitting in front of my eyes all along, but
  apparently unless you've used a Mac (I haven't) it is unreasonable to
  assume a user would know to do this.

  Granted, there is a tooltip that says "Drag to change the primary
  display." but this is only activated once you have already clicked on
  the tiny black bar.

  Perhaps a better UI hint would be useful here to say "Hey, dumbass,
  drag that very tiny black bar" or something.

  [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/113246/permanantly-set-monitor-as-
  primary

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.6.3-0ubuntu43
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 15 10:24:31 2013
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-control-center
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-09-27 (17 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha amd64 (20130903)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
  usr_lib_gnome-control-center: deja-dup 27.3.1-0ubuntu1

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