Re: multimonitor question

[Takuma Murakami <takuma@dgp.ne.jp>]

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