4.4.1 placing windows on the wrong monitor

[David Mohr]

I don't think anyone ever followed up on my report of xfce launching
applications on the wrong X screen. My bad, I never entered a bug
report... so finally doing it properly: bug 3667 (
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3667 ). Please, let's get
this fixed for the next xfce release? :-). It's really annoying for
dual monitor users!

~David

On Oct 8, 2007 7:05 AM, Øyvind Østlund <oyvind at noteme.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't have much more to add to this, but just wanted to let you know
> that on a clean install I have the same behavior as you see. Also the
> doing Alt+Tab to switch between apps, will sometimes brings the "list of
> apps" up on the wrong screen. I sometimes have the feeling it has
> something to do with where the cursor is positioned at the time, but
> haven't been able to verify this.
>
> Xubuntu 7.10, with ATI Radeon 9800PRO (proprietary drivers)
> - ØØ -
>
>
>
> > HI,
> > I'm running debian unstable, and I just upgraded from 4.4.0 to 4.4.1.
> > I have a dual monitor setup as two X screens (not xinerama).
> > Now I can open a terminal, run program, thunar or my webbrowser just
> > fine from the xfdesktop menu on my secondary monitor. But when thunar
> > opens a program, or I choose mousepad from the accessories of the
> > xfdesktop popup menu, then my application appears on my primary
> > monitor. Yet i.e. items from the settings menu get placed on the
> > correct screen again... I have no idea why the behavior is so
> > inconsistent. At first I thought it might be a too sanitized
> > environment (maybe DISPLAY gets removed before spawning a new
> > process?), but then why does it work for some and not for others?
> >
> > Let me point out that it is a huge annoyance when applications get
> > placed on the wrong screen, because there is no way to move them
> > manually from one to the other, instead I have to close them and open
> > them up again by hand on the correct screen.
> >
> > Let me know if you need more info.
> >
> > ~David
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