Bug#740089: gnome-control-center: fails to set primary display for a dual monitor setup

[naths]

Package: gnome-control-center
Version: 1:3.8.3-4
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer sir,

Connected monitor with VGA port of HD6870 GPU and TV with HDMI port
on same GPU.
This works fine in case of extended desktop and mirror display mode. 'Detect
display' does not work.
Put 'OFF' the TV and monitor 'ON'. On restart the setup fails to set the
monitor as primary display
and put the logon screen to TV. After logon via TV the desplay set to the
monitor again.
There is no scope for selecting primary display (logon screen) in all cases.

Regards,
gnath



-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN, LC_CTYPE=en_IN (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-control-center depends on:
ii  accountsservice            0.6.34-2
ii  apg                        2.2.3.dfsg.1-2
ii  colord                     1.0.6-1
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.22-1
ii  gnome-control-center-data  1:3.8.3-4
ii  gnome-desktop3-data        3.8.4-2
ii  gnome-icon-theme           3.10.0-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic  3.10.1-1
ii  gnome-menus                3.8.0-2
ii  gnome-settings-daemon      3.8.5-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.8.2-2
ii  libaccountsservice0        0.6.34-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.10.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.18-1
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.16-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0         0.30-2
ii  libcanberra0               0.30-2
ii  libcheese-gtk23            3.10.1-1sid1
ii  libcheese7                 3.10.1-1sid1
ii  libclutter-gtk-1.0-0       1.4.4-3
ii  libcolord-gtk1             0.1.25-1.1
ii  libcolord1                 1.0.6-1
ii  libcups2                   1.7.1-5
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2           0.102-1
ii  libfontconfig1             2.11.0-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.30.5-1
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]   9.2.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.38.2-5
ii  libgnome-bluetooth11       3.8.1-2
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-7       3.8.4-2
ii  libgoa-1.0-0               3.8.3-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.10.7-1
ii  libgtop2-7                 2.28.5-2
ii  libibus-1.0-5              1.5.5-1
ii  libkrb5-3                  1.12+dfsg-2
ii  libnm-glib-vpn1            0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-glib4                0.9.8.0-5
ii  libnm-gtk0                 0.9.8.4-1
ii  libnm-util2                0.9.8.0-5
ii  libpango-1.0-0             1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0        1.36.0-1+b1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0      0.105-4
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0    4.0-6+b1
ii  libpulse0                  4.0-6+b1
ii  libpwquality1              1.2.3-1
ii  libsmbclient               2:4.1.4+dfsg-3
ii  libsocialweb-client2       0.25.20-6
ii  libupower-glib1            0.9.23-2+b1
ii  libwacom2                  0.8-1
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.6.2-1
ii  libxi6                     2:1.7.2-1
ii  libxml2                    2.9.1+dfsg1-3

Versions of packages gnome-control-center recommends:
ii  cups-pk-helper         0.2.5-2
ii  gkbd-capplet           3.6.0-1
ii  gnome-online-accounts  3.8.3-2
ii  gnome-user-guide       3.8.2-1
ii  gnome-user-share       3.8.3-1
ii  iso-codes              3.51-1
ii  mesa-utils             8.1.0-2+b1
ii  mousetweaks            3.10.0-1
ii  network-manager-gnome  0.9.8.4-1
ii  ntp                    1:4.2.6.p5+dfsg-3
ii  policykit-1-gnome      0.105-2
ii  rygel                  0.20.3-1
ii  rygel-tracker          0.20.3-1
ii  system-config-printer  1.4.3-1

Versions of packages gnome-control-center suggests:
ii  gnome-screensaver        3.6.1-1
ii  gstreamer1.0-pulseaudio  1.2.3-1
ii  libcanberra-gtk-module   0.30-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-module  0.30-2
ii  x11-xserver-utils        7.7+2
ii  xscreensaver             5.23-1