-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Jon TURNEY wrote: > I was actually thinking the other day about how the bit of code which does > this might be wrong. :S > > I suspect the problem is that when you have the secondary to the left of the > primary, the windows on that monitor have negative coordinates. The code > which constrains windows to lie on the display does the wrong thing in that > situation, so they can appear offscreen. I'm not sure if that's the only > problem in that configuration, though.... but the patch you linked to should > be making everything fine once the window is visible, so maybe it really is > only a window placement issue.
I think that patch was already committed[1], but the code has clearly changed significantly from then. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2003-05/msg00210.html > If possible, make the display on the left the primary and see if things get > better :) I like this solution. :-) > I don't think this is a regression against the 6.9 server. > > I agree it is clearly wrong, though. Windows should be managing the location > of this dialog for us, though and should know enough not do that (X programs > think that the display is one big screen, and so can't know not to put dialogs > on the crack between screens) You'd certainly think so, this is a Windows dialog after all... > -multiwindow means "hide the root window and use the internal window manager > to integrate X windows with native windows" > > -multiplemonitors means "I want one big X screen for this display to span all > my monitors" and is on by default in -multiwindow mode > > If you want -multiwindow mode, but only on 1 screen, something like "XWin > -screen 0 @1 -multiwindow" should work. I don't have a multihead setup, so I'm unable to test any of this. Yaakov Cygwin/X -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkkgykoACgkQpiWmPGlmQSNIdACfV8XrHBodtEz3i9ofLrhBZ/16 bD8Aniv1GclWpikmePkmK3JtRDsU2NDq =kjEe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/
