On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 07:32:10AM -0800, Nate Smith wrote: > > You can't just move the mouse to the proper display and access your > menu from there?
Nope. For instance, the Gnome menu bar at the bottom of the screen only displays on the :0.0 screen. Even if I could, it is only half the solution. What if I want to open a new browser window but want it on the second head so that I can have two browser windows side-by-side? That is why it needs to be done at window placement time, not application launch time. > In windomaker, blackbox, etc, it always opens in the > display the mouse is active in, for me.. I'm not trying to be > antagonistic, I'm just trying to understand what it is you want .. :) Maybe the browser analogy above helps. > Like I say, it seems to be implicitly assumed to be the current (active) > desktop. Am i to understand you want to be able to be in workspace 3 > and open an app in workspace 1? Let's not use the term "workspace" as that usually seems to connotate "virtual paging" in window manager. But I think you are thinking about it correctly. If I am in screen 1, click a menu item, before the app's window is instantiated, the window manager pops up a dialog with a choice for each of your screens and asks which one to open the window on. There could be rules in place to say dialogs always open on their parent's screen, etc. to minimize the number of times a user has to interact with the dialog. > (for example) If so, It sounds like it > wouldn't be too hard to hack into your favorite window manager :) This > is the best part of open source! I know. I just have so much on my plate right now. I was hoping it already existed. :-) b. -- Brian J. Murrell _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
