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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