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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
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