On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Stephan Beal
<sgbeal@googlemail.com> wrote:
In both of my cases i run geany always on the same monitor, but it's not the primary monitor (where the desktop lives). In my 2 setups, the desktop lives on the built-in (laptop) monitors and the external monitors (which are much bigger :) are the secondary monitors (but where i do all my work).
So the problem might be that i'm always running geany on the secondary/external monitors.
A slight elaboration there, from the config i'm using right this minute:
built-in monitor (#1) sits to my left. #2 (external) sits in front of me. The desktop lives on #1. From #2 i'm ssh'd into a dev server and run geany from there, exporting the display to my machine (via (ssh -X)). When i start Geany, it starts up on the same monitor as the shell i started it from (#2). When i tap Ctrl-F/H/whatever, the search dialog invariably pops up on the built-in monitor.
On my home setup, monitor #2 sits on the left of #1, and the behaviour is the same - i run Geany on #2 but the dialogs pop up on #1. (This time without the extra level of ssh indirection.)
So it would seem (though i haven't fully verified this) that gtk is always showing them on the "main" monitor (==the one where the desktop is configured to show up). But that's really just a guess (and breaks down when we consider what might happen when no WM, or no desktop, is running).