[Geany] Question about multi-head display issues

Stephan Beal sgbeal at xxxxx
Sun Jul 24 12:08:35 UTC 2011


On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:

> The only reason for the dialogs to move is when the window manager
> says they can't be positioned where they were.  This is probably what
> happens to Stephan as he moves between machines, the saved position on
> the dual display is illegal on the single one so the window manager
> just positions the dialog in a legal position and on close Geany saves
> that position which is reused next time on the dual display,
> effectively moving the dialog to the other monitor.
>

Once i learned that geany saves/restores the dialog positions it was easy.
Before that i had never tried to move them myself because i assumed they
would just revert the next time (as dialogs tend to do in many
applications).

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----- stephan beal
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