From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8685 invoked by alias); 4 Mar 2004 13:22:46 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 8678 invoked from network); 4 Mar 2004 13:22:46 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO slinky.cs.nyu.edu) (128.122.20.14) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Mar 2004 13:22:46 -0000 Received: from slinky.cs.nyu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i24DMj1t021746 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:22:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (pechtcha@localhost) by slinky.cs.nyu.edu (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.2/Submit) with ESMTP id i24DMjkv021743 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 2004 08:22:45 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 13:22:00 -0000 From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Subject: Re: multimonitor question In-Reply-To: <20040304150900.6A26.TAKUMA@dgp.ne.jp> Message-ID: References: <000001c40125$aa0c3140$9bbb6151@BENJACKSON> <000001c4012f$75322dd0$9bbb6151@BENJACKSON> <20040304150900.6A26.TAKUMA@dgp.ne.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 X-SW-Source: 2004-03/txt/msg00107.txt.bz2 List-Id: 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/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor@watson.ibm.com |,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