Yeah, that would be a great solution for the smiley menu, I didn't think of
that before. But we should solve the problem for other windows, too, that's
why I'm looking for an entire solution. It's really annoying when you are
using amsn on a not-primary screen and *every* window is opening on the
primary screen.
Mirko
2007/11/27, Sander Hoentjen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 12:15 +0100, Mirko Hansen wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> >
> > I just tried to fix the multi-screen bug mentioned here:
> > http://www.amsn-project.net/forums/viewtopic.php?p=23738 ... but I
> > think we won't be able to fix this. The problem is, that always after
> > creating a window the proc moveinscreen is called that places the
> > window on the primary screen again. So we need to get the whole
> > geometry of all screens. Therefor [winfo screenwidth .] is useless, it
> > always returns the width of the primary screen, independant of where
> > the window to check is positioned. A call of [wm maxsize .] returns
> > the geometry of all screen, but we only get the complete geometry, not
> > only of one screen, and we don't get where the other screen(s) is/are
> > positioned. It always returns the absolute size, but if the second
> > screen is positioned left beside the primary screen, we would need
> > negative coordinates to successfully move a window on that screen, but
> > this information doesn't tell us anything about that. The other
> > problem would be that we get "dead corners" in the case that the
> > screens have different resolutions: The [wm maxsize .] merges the
> > screens into one big rectangle, so there will be at least one corner
> > that no screen can display. So we need another solution or we are
> > unable to fix that bug. Does anyone have an idea how to be able to get
> > the resolution and position of the other screens? I only found one
> > article about that problem telling that tcl doesn't seem to support it
> > and it uses some kind of dirty hack to detect how many screens are
> > used but it doesn't really help. One way would be to let the user
> > manually enter his screens and the fitting geometry or letting him
> > turn off the moveinscreen-proc. Both ways are very user-unfriendly and
> > not really safe but it would be a last resort ...
>
> What about checking if it is in the chatwindow first? If it is, don't
> move it.
>
> Sander
>
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