Stop whole multi-display scrolling?
By John Thompson
I just upgraded 19.10 to 20.04. I have two monitors, one landscape (secondary) to the right of another, portrait (primary). It appears that my screen workspace is now wider than my monitors. When I move the mouse off of the right of the right display, both displays scroll (all windows, dock, top bar, etc) and I can now see the right end of the top bar (power, volume, etc). The reverse happens when I move the mouse off the left of the left display. In terms of computer graphics, my displays seem to be acting somewhat like a viewport into a larger world space.
How can I switch back so that my total "display space" matches my "world space"?
Part of the left display's background image is on the right display. I can't move windows past a point near the middle of the left display, but I can move them all the way to the right (scrolling the right display).
Software & Updates, Additional Drivers, indicates that I am using NVIDIA GP107GL [Quadro Pro P1000], with the recommended NVIDIA driver metapackage from nvidia-driver-440 (proprietary, tested). I tried the -435 driver, but got install errors.
Edit: More info. I've found that if I swap the positions of my monitors (portait on left, landscape on right), the problem goes away. Moving them back makes the problem return. This is acting more like a bug than a settings issue.
1 Answer
Recent updates have fixed the problem, so I conclude it was a bug that has now been fixed.
