Re: multimonitor question
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
Re: multimonitor question
Igor, 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? The placement of monitors is configured in the Windows layer. With dual monitor systems you can freely move the monitors in the display setting menu (I don't know the exact name in English Windows; right-click desktop and select the rightmost tab). Windows let flexible placement to accommodate various real layouts of monitors. The virtual screen is formed as the smallest rectangle that includes all monitors. For example we can consider the following placement which has two empty areas. +---+--+ | | | | | | | | monitor B | +---+ | | | | | +--+ | monitor A | | | | | +---+--+ Hope this helps. Takuma Murakami
multimonitor question
Is there any way to specify the default position of new windows when using: -multimonitors -multiwindow? as it stands, my left hand monitor is at a smaller res then the right, and as the x server put it at 0,0 I have to right click the taskbar and Move the window... this is quite frustrating... is there any solution? Or will I have to download the 200+MB source tree? Thanks ben
Re: multimonitor question
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
