4.4.1 placing windows on the wrong monitor

[David Mohr]

On Nov 11, 2007 11:17 PM, Brian J. Tarricone <bjt23 at cornell.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:27:15 -0700 David Mohr wrote:
>
> > 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!
>
> Next release is in one week.  I don't know that anyone with a dualhead
> setup has time to look into it.  Any takers?

Sorry to get back to this so close to release time.

If anyone can give me a pointer to what piece of code does the
launching for both thunar and xfdesktop, then I might be able to debug
it a bit myself. Any hints?

~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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