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gnome-panel package

notification area on second screen doesn't work

Asked by jone

Hey,

I'm running ubuntu with the fglrx-graphics-driver. That works pretty fine, i have my two screens running now. On each screen there is a own instance of the gnome desktop, so i can't drag'n'drop windows between the screen, but that doesn't matter.

So i customized my second screen with a gnome-panel and some useful things. Now i wanted to run Gaim on it. It is working fine, it just don't have any notification- / tray-icon. So i added a notification area and restarted Gaim. The notification area now doesn't display any icon. It's not only Gaim, I started miscelaneus apps which are using the notification area, but it didn't display any icon. On my primary screen it all works still fine.

Can run multiple notification area at the same time?

Greets and thanks in advance
jone

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Alex F (frase) said : 		#1

I'm having the same problem; I just finally got my dualhead nVidia card to run two monitors as separate X displays (I like to be able to game fullscreen on one display and let the other keep running independently, for example). I'm slowly figuring out how to launch applications on each display, but I can't seem to move a running application between the two (I have to close and reopen on the other one) and my Pidgin also does not create a notification icon if I launch it on the second display -- only the first.

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Sir Nikon (omnineko) said : 		#2

Same problem here as well. It seems that the two instances of Gnome could cause other issues as well (screen saver in instance two activating because instance one if the only instance being used).

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iwayne (stanleywholland) said : 		#3

what do you do about a faulty notification area? the network connection icon does not offer the words "Wireless Connection" in spite of the fact that the Help instructions indicate that it should. Do I have a corrupt copy of Ubuntu or what?

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