Problem with 2 Displays and Ubuntu 18.04

[Mark Phillips]

Michael,

A few comments below...

Mark

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 9:48 AM Michael Butash <michael at butash.net> wrote:

> What DE are you using with it, default ubuntu gnome?
>

Yes, gnome that comes with Ubuntu 18.04 out of the box.


> Normally windoze or some Linux DE's you can right click on the menu,
> choose "move", which should refocus the window or the mouse that the mouse
> can grab it.
>

Gnome has the option, but one has to right click on the title bar, which is
not available when the evince window is thrown to the lower resolution
monitor.

Usually.  Gnome was pretty terrible about window behavior using it with
> 18.04 on my laptop, don't remember what it did or didn't let you do.  Maybe
> try a different DE, but good luck there, as I could never get another DE to
> work on my 18.04 laptop, why it's now running Arch...
>
> Maybe you can use the window or desktop scaling from system settings on
> there to make everything small enough that you can grab and resize the
> window.  It's usually good about remembering the last window size, once you
> can get it not huge and close it normally to remember.
>

Thanks for the idea. Just way too much fiddling around for evince. I have
installed another program/viewer.

>
> It does sound like ubuntu doing something weird if it keeps doing it that
> evince would think it needed to open bigger than a 1080p display, probably
> something around dpi and desktop scale.  Or evince isn't properly
> hi-dpi/scale aware, but I don't think so as I use it fine on all my systems
> from 1080p to 4k displays.  Only other time I've seen that is when I open a
> window large on an external display, and remove it, pulling it back to a
> smaller primary display, and that occurs that I can't resize the window
> easily.
>

It would surprise me if ubuntu were the culprit because no other
application has this issue.

>
> Try Okular as a viewer to see if it's weird too.
>

It was a little large for my liking, so I installed eog. Small and fast,
and no issues like evince!

Thanks!

Mark

>
> -mb
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 12:22 PM Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
> wrote:
>
>> I have a System76 gazelle laptop driving two displays - the laptop
>> display 1920x1080 is display 2, and a Dell 34" widescreen 3444x1440 is
>> display 1 through an HDMI cable.
>>
>> So far all apps work as expected - start the app in display 1 or 2, and
>> the app appears in the appropriate display at the correct resolution.
>>
>> Except evince, the standard gnome document viewer. This is its behavior:
>> * Click on a document in display 1, and the document opens in display 2,
>> but at the higher resolution so I can't grab the title bar and move it to
>> display 1.
>>
>> * Start evince from the cli in display 2 and the app starts in display 2.
>> However, select a document to open, and it appears in display 1, again too
>> large to drag to display 2.
>>
>> * Open evince or click on a document in display 1, and evince operates
>> properly with all actions completing in display 1 at the correct resolution.
>>
>> I submitted a bug report for evince, but got some push back that this is
>> probably an Ubuntu or System76 issue, and I should file bug reports there.
>> Then silence.
>>
>> Any suggestions on how to fix the problem with evince, or should I just
>> use another document viewer?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mark
>>
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