Re: my 3 heads = apps in the dead zone

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

On Thu, 17 Nov 2005, Carl Karsten wrote:

> I am running cygwin/x on a 3 head win box: 21" is main, 2 17's are
> stacked to the right.  so the 3 look like these dots .:
>
> or like this
>
>     [17]
> [21][17]
>
> When I start an app, it creates its window in the "dead zone" where
> there is no monitor - like this:
>
>  app[17]
> [21][17]
>
> I can tell that's where it is because I can right click the XWin task
> bar button, hit "move", hold down the DownArrow key and the app's window
> will come into view from the top of the 21.  If I run the app, right
> click, move and use RightArrow, the window comes into view at the left
> side of the top 17.
>
> Is this a problem with the app, cygwin/x, x.org, Win or my config?

Ultimately, window placement is the responsibility of the window manager.
However, most window managers assume a single rectangular desktop area.

If the window manager did support irregular desktop shapes, I'd say it
would be arguably a problem of the multimonitor mode of Cygwin/X, in that
it doesn't detect the "dead area".  However, I'm not sure other X
implementations support irregular geometry displays.

As a workaround, many X apps support the -geometry option (xterm/rxvt
certainly do).  This allows you to specify the starting position (and
size) of the application window.  You may also be able to configure either
the application or some window manager to compute the default position at
negative offsets (i.e., at the bottom-right of the display area).
	Igor
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