Lara Michaels
Hello,
I can always reproduce this behavior. I am running Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and was going to post this as a bug report on gnome-keyring, but now suspect I can probably work around this within xmonad.
In short: when using a laptop that will only at times be connected to an external monitor but also used "by itself", is there a way to make sure that a modal window will always get placed in a currently visible part of my desktop area? My problem is that when I boot my laptop by itself, a modal window that grabs all input focus (gnome-keyring's "please insert passphrase", which often pops up on Ubuntu systems if there is a known, encrypted wifi network within range) is getting placed in my external monitor which... is not plugged to the computer at all. The result is that no elements of the Gnome UI work at all: neither the menus on the panel nor (Gnome) keyboard shortcuts to launch apps do anything, which makes the system unusable.
This to me sounds like a Gnome/xrandr bug. It might be possible to work around this in xmonad, but I'm not sure if there's any functionality there to be able to do different things depending upon how many monitors are available. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com