Application opening at the wrong screen?

[David Mohr]

On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Stefan Stuhr <xfceuserslist at sstuhr.dk> wrote:
> David Mohr wrote:
>  > Ok, I can confirm that.
>  >
>  > I have had similar problems before, and tried to submit some patches
>  > to get it fixed. I'm not sure if they really made it in though,
>  > because it wasn't clear at that point whether this is an xfce or a gtk
>  > bug. I didn't have time to look into the gtk sources, unfortunately...
>  >
>  > I guess an indication that it's a gtk bug could be that when I try to
>  > launch the web browser from pidgin (on my second screen), it appear on
>  > my first screen.
>
>  It's probably more of a problem with the developers of applications(1)
>  having this problem not having this kind of multi screen setup in mind
>  while coding the application launching parts of their programs.

Well, if they use the glib/gtk functions to spawn a new process, and
these functions are described to correctly preserve the environment,
then it might fall back on a toolkit bug.

>  (1): Or panel plugins, in the case of QuickLauncher.
>
>  > [...]
>  >
>  > ~David
>
>  Stefan