The list of indicators of top panel doesn't detect this plugin: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/584/taskbar/
Also I have one request - Could you add additional activities bar with icons to second monitor.

Hi,
I'd like to ask if there is a possibility to add support for positioning of status bar - the hidden bar with status icons in the bottom left corner of the screen.

I have primary display on right and it is sometimes very hard to get mouse properly on the spot so the bar could roll out.
It would be much better if the bar could be moved to the bottom right of primary or bottom left of secondary monitor.

Thank you

With this extension enabled the weird area at the top of the screen appears and some gui elements like context menu or desktop files appear lower than that.
Here is the video of the problem: https://vid.me/6z1T

Any ideas why it is happening?

Hi,
using this extension I'm having a little issue.
The activities button on primary display (I disabled the activities button on secondary display) after a while shifts a few pixels to the right.
See attached screenshot:

My other enabled extensions are:
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When the display's monitors have identical heights and known to be level at the top, would it be possible for multi-monitors-add-on to take extra care about making the workspace thumbs all level? There's a bit of a staircase effect going on at the moment in this situation:

     monitor 1       monitor 2
+---------------+---------------+
|TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT|TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT|
|               |               |
|D              |W1b            |
|D           W1a|W2b            |
|D           W2a|W3b            |
|D           W3a|...            |
|D           ...|...            |
|D           ...|...            |
|            ...|               |
|               |               |
+---------------+---------------+     (current situation)

D=dock, T=topbar,
Wxy=thumbnail for workspace x monitor y

It's especially jarring to the eye when the thumbnail stacks are central and together like this: the macro view of the thumbs really should match the micro view of the monitors:

+---------------+---------------+
|TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT|TTTTTTTTTTTTTTT|
|               |               |
|D           W1a|W1b            |
|D           W2a|W2b            |
|D           W3a|W3b            |
|D           ...|...            |
|D           ...|...            |
|D           ...|...            |
|               |               |
|               |               |
+---------------+---------------+   (ideal case, for me)

To complicate matters, the levelling would need to work with or without a topbar on monitor 2, and in the presence or absence of the Hide Top Bar extension, if possible.

Hi and many thanks for this extension!

I guess this is a feature request: Would it be possible to have the date and time show up on any spawned panel?
For example, if you have a dual-monitor setup and run something in fullscreen on primary screen, having the date and time functionality on the second screen would be really really nice.

If i have conky running on my desktop, the second panel picks up conky and displays Conky as a running app.

I installed the plugin manually and changed the metadata.js to enable 3.18. Everything seems to work fine, I enabled every option at least once. They all had the expected effect and there are no errors logged to the journal.

Due to this I would recommend enabling official support for Gnome 3.18.

Everything has been checked on Arch Linux running Gnome 3.18.0-1

1. Open Apps A, B on main display
2. Move App B to secondary
3. Focus on App B
4. Application menu (in both displays) shows App A (or whatever is focused) on the main display.

Ubuntu 17.04, gnome shell 3.24.0, version 11 of this add-on

Would it be possible to have the extension duplicate the top/bottom bar and items on them while in Gnome Classic mode for additional monitors?

There doesn't appear to be anything that does this currently and is one of the primary reasons I'm running MATE atm.

On the primary panel, you can't move the mouse further to the right when you're at the end and not moving your cursor extremely fast. I'd love to see this feature on other monitors too, both for the left and the right side of the panel.

First: wonderful extension!
I was wondering if it would be possible to have the additional thumbnail slider match the shell theme?
I use the extension User Themes https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/19/user-themes/
Not a big deal, but it would be nice.
Thanks.

This extension is currently not supported by Fedora 24, since it comes with a newer Gnome version. Can you please provide an upgraded version and submit it to extensions.gnome.org?

When triggering hot-corner, you see all open windows. The windows are moving to a nice overview, with a moving+resizing-transition (all open windows gets smaller via animation).

All works correct, even with this extension but, there is one little exception:

When pressing meta-key (the key between CTRL and ALT), there is on all non-primary screens (in my case middle and right screen) no window-animation while opening the overview. Yo see the final overview / window tiles instantly. Only the thumbnail-slider is correctly animated.

• Primary screen works like expected in all cases.
• Hot corner even on the non-primary screen works like expected on all screens
• Closing-animation (for example pressing ESC) works like expected on all screens

Using Debian 9.1 stable, latest updates.

Thanks for this great extension! Would you consider creating tags in git so that releases can be tracked? I'm the packager for this extension in Debian (that also makes its way into Ubuntu/Mint/etc) and it would make it easier to make sure we have the latest release package rather than manually checking the commit history. Thanks!

On the primary monitor it opens the calendar... Second monitor should behave the same way

steps to reproduce (Fedora 25, Wayland, gnome-shell --version GNOME Shell 3.22.3. I have enabled only "Thumbnails-Slider on additional monitors" in extension settings)

1. unplug a secondary monitor
2. open activities overview
3. plug the monitor back
   Session quits and you see a gdm login screen.

If extension disabled activities overview closing and you see your desktop, no crashes.

The indicator for this extension has an entry called "Test" that if clicked on, only temporary displays "Multi monitors addon". This seems like something that is shipped unintentionally and doesn't seem very useful, and should probably be removed.

When the AppMenu-Button is on on the second monitor, it only shows what is selected on the first. I have recorded a Loom video of the issue here: https://www.useloom.com/share/0963ef6cf90a4e4292cac35f737b188e

With this extension, I am able to have the workspace interact with both my monitors, but I would like the ability to have each monitor track their own workspaces, so I can change one without having to change the other.

Is this possible?

Any chance you could make this work with topcions (so that the icons show on all screens)?

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/495/topicons/

Thanks.

The multi-monitors-add-on @269598d and workspaces-to-dock (passingthru67/workspaces-to-dock@fbb5f3b) cannot be installed at the same time. The Gnome Shell activities overview's windows keep there desktop size instead of being thumbnailed.

Current solution is to either deactive workspaces-to-dock or completeley remove multi-monitors-add-on.

Arch Linux x64, proprietary NVIDIA driver, Gnome 3 on xorg. All to latest versions including multi-monitors extension.

My setup includes two monitors: one 1920x1200 (secondary) and a 1080p primary.

A gnome-shell crash occurs when a user is logged in gnome and then gnome is locked from inactivity. If from another TTY a different user logs in (in my case, root), then going back to gnome, the initial user's session crashes and in most cases all open programs are lost.

A log speaks a thousand words: https://pastebin.com/uq0pE69q

Is this an issue with multi-monitors, or am I mistaking something?

It's broken for Gnome Shell 3.24.2 - instead of creating the second panel on the top of the second monitor, it creates second panel under first panel on the primary monitor.

When I have the Panel enabled on the second monitor, menus become detached from the menubar and move halfway down the window (happens in windows with regular menubars, like the terminal. Disabling the second monitor causes the menus to work again.

Hello,

I am using Arch Linux with gnome-shell 3.16. When I press super to go in the overview mode, I can use the mouse scroll wheel to change workspaces or to open a new one. However, when I am on an empty workspace (not applications in the overview) scrolling on the secondary screen does not work.

Here a step by step description:

1. Press "super"
2. Scroll to create a new workspace
3. Now move your mouse cursor to the secondary screen and use the scroll wheel to change to the previous workspace.

Result:
Nothing happens.

Expected:
You change the workspace to previous one.

Furthermore, when you are on a workspace with open applications than scrolling only works, if the mouse cursor is above an application preview.

To put it in a nutshell: both screens should behave identically

I have two 1080p monitors and I have enabled the thumbnail slider on the secondary display. Both thumbnail sliders are partially hidden by default. If I hover over the one on the primary display, the windows on the secondary display become bigger (the same size they are when the thumbnail slider on the secondary display is disabled). Hovering the thumbnail slider on the secondary display causes them to jump back to their smaller size.
There's also no animation when the windows on the secondary display move out of the way (when the thumbnail slider unhides) like there is on the primary display.

When Gnome Shell displays a black dialog (like Alt+F2) the panels should be deactivated (impossible to use and darker text).

I have a couple of extensions modifying the top bar, including Hide top bar, Taskbar and Media player indicator among others.
When I use Multi monitors add-on, the top bar displayed on the second display is a vanilla gnome top bar. In the preferences there is an option for adding indicators to it, but for example, auto-hiding feature and all of the customizations are absent.

Is it possible to have all the changes made to the top bar to be intact on the second display?!

When moving "Places" indicator to the secondary monitor it is positioned left of "Activities" button.

The text of the Activities button on my second monitor is in English and not translated to "Aktivitäten" (German) like the one on my primary monitor.

Can you upload this to https://extensions.gnome.org so it's easier for people to install?

I'm not sure if the issue here is with the themes, or this extension, but some themes (notably adapta) don't look correct on the workspace view on the second monitor.

The extension enables org.gnome.shell.overrides.workspaces-only-on-primary, but doesn't restore the original value when it is disabled again.

As some people have mentioned on the Gnome Extensions page I am also having an issue with overview windows not showing on secondary displays and the thumbnail slider almost completely cropped out on secondary displays.

Btw, thanks for the awesome extension!

Just installed the latest version from github but I receive this error when I click the setting gear in TweakTool:

`TypeError: redeclaration of let nameRenderer

Stack trace:
Application<._getExtensionPrefsModule@resource:///org/gnome/shell/extensionPrefs/main.js:74:13
wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:178:22
Application<._selectExtension@resource:///org/gnome/shell/extensionPrefs/main.js:89:31
wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:178:22
Application<._onCommandLine@resource:///org/gnome/shell/extensionPrefs/main.js:243:17
wrapper@resource:///org/gnome/gjs/modules/lang.js:178:22
main@resource:///org/gnome/shell/extensionPrefs/main.js:399:5
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Would love to see hot corner support (for activities menu) on all monitors.

Hi!
Followed instructions here
https://www.maketecheasier.com/extend-gnome-3-panel-dual-monitors/
Although I can see the new extension in tweak-tool it is greyed out with an exclamation mark next to the prefs icon. All the access rights seem to be right, so what else can I try to get it activate-able?
Really looking forward to using this extension...
Thanks!

Is it possible not to scroll down first and second monitor at once?
For example: on 1st monitor i stay on workspace1 and on second i go to workspace 3.

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Hello,
First - great extensions, thanks for that! 👍
Now, issue.

When I choose 'Always on visible workspace' option, if changing workspaces by keyboard shortcut (CTRL+Alt+Arrow Up/Down) everything is fine, but when I'm changing workspace by mouse window app is not visible on all workspaces.

Just a follow up to some off topic discussion under #24. @spin83 are you still interested in maintaining this extension? There are quite a few users waiting for a formal update to Gnome 3.20, and there's been a pull request for it for the last 15 days.

If you are no longer interested in maintaining this extension, would you be willing to let someone else take over maintaining it? I'm not outright volunteering, but if no one else is interested then I guess I'd be willing to. I'm not an extension developer, but I am pretty active on GitHub and would have no problem accepting Pull Requests and/or updating the metadata.

I am also the maintainer of the AUR package of this extension and would love to get it updated for 3.20. 😉

So I'm opening this issue as a place to have this discussion properly. Don't take offense to the idea, we just really like this extension, and I, for one, would like to see it updated.

I expect to be able to dismiss the overview on empty workspaces by clicking on a blank "background" area, by which I mean the centre of the screen when no apps or search results or windows are visible. That's what works without the extension, or with multi-monitors-add-on installed on my primary monitor.

With multi-monitors-add-on installed, I expect the same behaviour on my secondary monitor. However, clicking in the blank background area on the secondary monitor on a workspace where that monitor has no windows does not dismiss the overview.

The inconsistency between the two monitors is quite jarring.

I use up to date Fedora 25 (GNOME 3.22.2 @ X11) and sometimes this Add-On crashes (and takes most extensions with it) when I lock PC and later unlock it.. It's also impossible to turn it on again until gnome-shell is restarted.

Here is log:

čec 10 11:52:54 david-pc org.gnome.Shell.desktop[1696]: Window manager warning: Buggy client sent a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message with a timestamp of 0 for 0x1e00007 (GNOME Shel)
čec 10 11:54:08 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: gsignal.c:2641: instance '0x555bf32457d0' has no handler with id '1'
čec 10 12:12:33 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed
čec 10 12:12:43 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: gsignal.c:2641: instance '0x555bf0c490b0' has no handler with id '12502'
čec 10 12:12:43 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: remove: i1x0y0w1920h1080
čec 10 12:12:43 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: Disable Multi Monitors Add-On ...
čec 10 12:12:43 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: Allocating size to ShellEmbeddedWindow 0x555bf0be0b70 without calling gtk_widget_get_preferred_width/height(). How does the code know the size to allocate?
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: Enable Multi Monitors Add-On ...
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: pi:0
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: i:0 x:1920 y:0 w:1920 h:1080
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: i:1 x:0 y:0 w:1920 h:1080
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: new: i1x0y0w1920h1080
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: loading default theme (Adwaita)
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: gsignal.c:2641: instance '0x555bf0c490b0' has no handler with id '12502'
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: remove: i1x0y0w1920h1080
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: Disable Multi Monitors Add-On ...
čec 10 12:43:25 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: loading default theme (Adwaita)
čec 10 12:43:26 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: JS LOG: loading default theme (Adwaita)
čec 10 12:43:26 david-pc gnome-shell[1696]: gsignal.c:2641: instance '0x555bf0c490b0' has no handler with id '12502'

Last error repeats several times and then other extensions start to fail. Is there some another, more detailed log? Or perhaps a debug mode in your extension..? Can I provide any more info?

I would expect it not to appear on the lockscreen.

when using (at least) two screens your multi-monitors-add-on helps a lot. thank you!

however, in my setup with two monitors there is an issue when using at the same time another add-on: workspace grid / https://github.com/zakkak/workspace-grid-gnome-shell-extension
combining both add-onds -- and using the gnome option of having workspaces not only on the primary monitor -- leads to a one-dimensional (flattened) column of workspaces on the second monitor while the main monitor displays the correct view of the grid of workspace (see attached screenshot).
this behaviour is inconvenient because the grid structure is lost and therefore the overview of the workspaces on the second screen is not given anymore.

my wish is that the combination of these two add-ons is supported.

Since upgrading gnome-shell the plugin fails to load with error:

Settings schema 'org.gnome.shell.extensions.multi-monitors-add-on' does not contain a key named 'show-date-time'

The additional bar is always transparent with the latest gnome-shell changes:
https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-shell/commit/?id=447bf55e45b00426ed908b1b1035f472c2466956

It should change its transparency based on window positions instead...