Re: Multi-monitor behavior with Apple's X11.app
Re: Multi-monitor behavior with Apple's X11.app
- Subject: Re: Multi-monitor behavior with Apple's X11.app
- From: Tim Cutts <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:33:15 +0000
- Mail-followup-to: Tim Cutts <email@hidden>, x11-users <email@hidden>
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 02:57:44PM -0500, Post, Andrew wrote:
> > this is more or less a question of the window manager and not the app
> > itself.
>
> Not according to Apple's engineers (I filed a bug report about this problem
> a while back and got a detailed response from them). I remember reading
> myself that Unix is moving away from window managers' dictating window
> placement in favor of letting the GUI toolkits do it.
That's a shame. Having the window manager do it gives the user more
control over the behaviour they want (although I suppose it makes things
more difficult for the application developer to test all possibilities).
Tim
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Dr Tim Cutts
Informatics Systems Group
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SA, UK
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