On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 04:38:49PM +0100, Hans Voss wrote: > Hmm. Google Mail somehow forgot that I wanted to write to the list. > Here's the mail again. > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Hans Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Jan 25, 2007 4:36 PM > Subject: Re: FVWM: window placement preference > To: Emilie Ann Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Yeah, it is the second monitor setup that does weird things. FVWM > "CenterPlacement" still sees both monitors as one large screen and > tries to place the window in the center of it. [Try that with the > primary on the right and secondary on the left, (so: SEC.|PRI. instead > of PRI.|SEC.). FVWM still thinks the "large desktop" is build as > PRI.|SEC. even though explicit placement on a screen upholds the > correct placement of primary and secondary screens].
Well, have you Xinerama compiled in (see "fvwm --version") and enabled? > On 1/25/07, Emilie Ann Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > and then cascade rather than from left to right? > >> I don't understand what you want. > > > >I mistyped. What I meant was the first window gets placed in the > >center, and subsequent windows get tiled to the left and the right of > >the center and then when all the screen has been taken up, the windows > >get cascaded over top of each other out from the center. > > > >I just tried Style * CenterPlacement and the behavior I got was a little > >odd. > >If my cursor is over my left monitor, the new window gets placed in > >the center of that monitor. If my cursor is over my right monitor, the > >new window gets placed at the very left of that monitor. > > > >And, there doesn't appear to be any tiling or cascading. All windows > >appear in the same spot. (which fits the description in the man page) > > > >I then tried MinOverlapPlacement to see how it worked, and it also > >gave me bizarre behavior on the right monitor but did what I expected > >on the left monitor. > > > >As far as I know, I don't have anything special set up for my two monitors. > >I am using fvwm 2.5.19 and fedora core 5. > > > >For now, I'll just go back to using the default TileCascadePlacement Ciao Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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