Fedora17/Gnome3 duplicating "Desktop Enviroment" just one Display every time I log in

NeuroKillswitch · #1 9th August 2012, 12:45 AM

Hi

I've installed Fedora 17 and installed the necessary libraries and drivers for my nVidia card:

Code:

$lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] (rev a1)

I have two monitors:

Code:

Dell 2208WFP (1680x1050), DVI
ViewSonic VG930m-3 (1280x1024), DVI

I want for each display its own Xscreen (i.e., Twindisplay feature is off). So I used (sudo) nvidia-settings (driver version 304.32) and saved the xorg.config file:

Code:

$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf
# nvidia-settings: X configuration file generated by nvidia-settings
# nvidia-settings:  version 304.30  (mockbuild@builder1.ovh.rpmfusion.lan)  Thu Aug  2 00:54:52 CEST 2012


Section "ServerLayout"
    Identifier     "Layout0"
    Screen      0  "Screen0" 0 0
    InputDevice    "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
    InputDevice    "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
    Option         "Xinerama" "0"
EndSection

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from default
    Identifier     "Mouse0"
    Driver         "mouse"
    Option         "Protocol" "auto"
    Option         "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
    Option         "Emulate3Buttons" "no"
    Option         "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"

    # generated from data in "/etc/sysconfig/keyboard"
    Identifier     "Keyboard0"
    Driver         "keyboard"
    Option         "XkbLayout" "us"
    Option         "XkbModel" "pc105"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor1"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "ViewSonic VG930m-3"
    HorizSync       24.0 - 82.0
    VertRefresh     50.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"

    # HorizSync source: edid, VertRefresh source: edid
    Identifier     "Monitor0"
    VendorName     "Unknown"
    ModelName      "DELL 2208WFP"
    HorizSync       30.0 - 83.0
    VertRefresh     56.0 - 75.0
    Option         "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device1"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9500 GT"
    BusID          "PCI:1:0:0"
    Screen          1
EndSection

Section "Device"
    Identifier     "Device0"
    Driver         "nvidia"
    VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
    BoardName      "GeForce 9500 GT"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
    Identifier     "Screen1"
    Device         "Device1"
    Monitor        "Monitor1"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"

# Removed Option "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0; DFP-0: 1680x1050 +0+0; DFP-0: 1680x1050_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_60 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select @1680x720 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select @1680x945 +0+0"
    Identifier     "Screen0"
    Device         "Device0"
    Monitor        "Monitor0"
    DefaultDepth    24
    Option         "Stereo" "0"
    Option         "nvidiaXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"
    Option         "metamodes" "DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0, DFP-1: nvidia-auto-select +1680+0; DFP-0: 1680x1050 +0+0; DFP-0: 1680x1050_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1280x1024_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864 +0+0; DFP-0: 1152x864_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 1024x768_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 800x600_60 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_75 +0+0; DFP-0: 640x480_60 +0+0; DFP-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0"
    SubSection     "Display"
        Depth       24
    EndSubSection
EndSection

I also noticed that when you set the Twindisplay feature off (i.e., have two xcreens), Gnome 3 it's not supported. It complains it doesn't have the sufficient hardware to support Gnome 3 (not sure about that because when I set the Twindisplay feature on, Gnome 3 works just fine). So when you log in (and the Gnome 3 is not support), it looks a bit like a combination between Gnome 2 and 3. I decided to set gnome-fallback so it goes back to Gnome 2. It presented the menu bars on display 0 and the names Applications, Places, Login Name, etc twice. The other display just shows the wallpaper I have. I thought everything was OK until I started logging in and out. As you can see in the picture (zipped file attached), display 0 keeps reducing the desktop space because every time I log in it duplicates menu and desktop workspace bars (top and bottom). I can see the names Applications, Places, the date, my logging name 14 times on top and 14 workspaces below. If I can keep logging in and out, the desktop space (background) will "disappear" and will just show the menu bars. If I go back and set the Twindisplay on, everything goes back to normal but if I create the two xscreens for each display, it remembers all the displays it created every time I logged in and out. I don't know what else to do. I didn't find anything close to this problem on the internet. Ideas??

Thanks in advance.

#2 9th August 2012, 05:55 AM

Using nvidia setting to write xorg.conf is wrong, remove this section completely, then restart X

Code:

Section "Files"
    FontPath        "/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1"
EndSection

NeuroKillswitch · #3 9th August 2012, 07:28 PM

Hi Yellowman

I was hoping really bad that would have solved the problem. I removed the few lines you mentioned and restarted X while logged in my account. Unfortunatelly, nothing changed. Maybe, it hasn't duplicated the workspace icons, etc. on the menu bar but I am not totally sure because I lost the count on how many of them there were.

Just in case, here is the xsessions-errors:

Code:

]$ cat .xsession-errors
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/username/keyring-iuuchl
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/username/keyring-iuuchl/ssh
GPG_AGENT_INFO=/run/user/username/keyring-iuuchl/gpg:0:1
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/username/keyring-iuuchl
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/username/keyring-iuuchl
GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/run/user/username/keyring-iuuchl
SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/run/user/username/keyring-iuuchl/ssh

(gnome-panel:1160): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_accelerator_parse_with_keycode: assertion `accelerator != NULL' failed

** (gnome-panel:1160): WARNING **: Unable to parse mouse modifier '(null)'

Initializing tracker-miner-fs...
Tracker-Message: Setting up monitor for changes to config file:'/home/username/.config/tracker/tracker-miner-fs.cfg'
Starting log:
  File:'/home/username/.local/share/tracker/tracker-miner-fs.log'
** Message: applet now removed from the notification area
Initializing tracker-store...
Tracker-Message: Setting up monitor for changes to config file:'/home/username/.config/tracker/tracker-store.cfg'
Tracker-Message: Setting up monitor for changes to config file:'/home/username/.config/tracker/tracker-store.cfg'
Starting log:
  File:'/home/username/.local/share/tracker/tracker-store.log'
Failed to play sound: File or data not found

(tracker-store:1259): Tracker-CRITICAL **: D-Bus service name:'org.freedesktop.Tracker1' is already taken, perhaps the daemon is already running?
** Message: applet now embedded in the notification area

(nm-applet:1231): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -8 and height 27

(gnome-sound-applet:1240): sound-cc-panel-WARNING **: Unable to get default sink

(gnome-settings-daemon:1107): media-keys-plugin-WARNING **: Unable to get default sink

(gnome-sound-applet:1240): sound-cc-panel-WARNING **: Failed to connect context: Connection refused

** (gnome-settings-daemon:1107): WARNING **: Failed to connect context: Connection refused

(notification-daemon:1249): Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_widget_size_allocate(): attempt to allocate widget with width -23 and height 27

Ideas are welcome.

Thanks,
NKS

---------- Post added at 02:28 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:24 AM ----------

OK. The problem is Gnome 3. I installed dconf-editor and found that under org>gnome>gnome-panel>layout, the fields object-id-list and toplevel-id-list had many entries instead of just one value of each attibute. Right now I am able to delete all of them and leave just one of each attibute and it looks fine (I can see the screen and everything). The problem? Every time you log in or restart X, it does the same thing, and keep adding entries to those fields automatically. I couldn't find where the profile text files are saved. How can I set this permanently? It seems dconf-editor doesn't know what's permanently is and has some sort of counter somewhere.

Thanks,

NormanBRobinson · #4 18th September 2012, 12:42 AM

I'm having the same problem with a two video card, three monitor setup. So annoying and unusable!

MMaggio · #5 23rd October 2012, 05:38 PM

I have the same problem! Have any of you figured out what is happening??

Ihatewindows · #6 24th October 2012, 12:54 AM

It is most probably the driver. Nvidia is not really into the whole open source thing, so they don't care what happens to your system for that matter. Thats why I'm going to get an Asus as my next laptop (they are very Linux friendly) because my proprietary Nvidia driver stinks.

***DBelton*** · #7 24th October 2012, 01:08 AM

Well, just getting an Asus laptop may or may not help you with graphics drivers. Asus doesn't make a graphics chip, so they use Nvidia, AMD (ATI), or Intel.

So, video drivers for an Asus laptop would be the very same video drivers you get currently in Fedora.