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[HaraldK <1292398@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, what a day. Hoping for relieve on this bug I apt-get install'ed
xfce. It has the same problem with a crashing settings-deamon (it has
its own). And I noticed that even xrandr just crashed on, what I think,
where completely sane inputs with a floating point exception. And I did
not really like the output of xrandr showing LVDS2, LVDS-1-0, VGA-1-1,
VGA2 with at least three of them always in a connected state. My
impression is that this is a source for confusion. The reason may be
that my laptop has what I reckon is hybrid graphics, i.e. two graphics
cards:

% lspci |grep -i vga
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV635/M86 [Mobility Radeon HD 3650]

Then I noticed that I had not installed fglrx. I apt-get install'ed it,
rebooted, logged into gnome3 as well as xfce, fixed the display settings
to my likings, rebooted, logged in and, wow, it is still there.

The remarkable part about xrandr output: It has now LVDS1, VGA1,
LVDS-1-1, VGA-1-1, but no '2' and only the first two are listed as
connected.

So in the end it seems this is rather a bug of whatever Xorg driver was
superseeded by fglrx (I am not at all an expert of these drivers of X).
I wonder if all others affected by this bug have hybrid graphics too.

Lets see if the settings survive one more reboot.

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

Status in elementary OS:
  Confirmed
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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