On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Takuma Murakami wrote: > Ben, > > Please utilize the -geometry option as Igor says. > > Perhaps you are placing your monitors like the following > figure (fixed-width fonts are assumed). > > +-----------+--------------+ > | | | > | | | > | | | > +-----------+ | > | | monitor B | > | | | > | monitor A | | > | | | > +-----------+--------------+ > > Cygwin/X maps the top-left corner of the whole virtual screen > to (0, 0) on which new windows are to be placed. As long as > you specify -multimonitors in those situations, you should > accept this result and make use of -display option. Of course > proposals of better ways of mapping would be appreciated. > > The true problem is that no matter if -multimonitors is > specified or not, some code assume the top-left corner of > the whole virtual screen is (0, 0). Therefore users will > accidentally lose their new windows though they are willing > to use only the primary monitor. > > Takuma Murakami
Takuma, Not having looked at the code, I may be asking something naïve, but isn't the following layout also possible? +-----------+--------------+ | | | | | | | monitor A | | | | monitor B | | | | +-----------+ | | | | | | | +-----------+--------------+ And if it is (and I can think of others, too), shouldn't the choice of layout be configurable somehow? Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton