[openbox] Multihead Openbox: Wrong screen placement when opening window

[Jordan Mendler]

Great, thanks!

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Andreas Fink <andreas.fink85 at googlemail.com
> wrote:

> 2011/12/14 Jordan Mendler <jordanmendler at gmail.com>:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am relatively new to openbox, but it is awesome. Thanks and keep up the
> > great work! Anyway, I have a 4 monitor setup and it seems that whenever I
> > open a new window in openbox, the monitor on which it is opened is
> > inconsistent. Sometimes it will appear on the monitor my cursor is
> currently
> > in. Other times it will appear in an unused monitor. And even other
> times it
> > will appear in a seemingly random monitor.
> >
> > Can anyone advise how window placement works when opening a new window
> in a
> > multi-head setup? It is inconvenient when it, for example, opens a
> monitor
> > on the projector behind me rather than on the main monitor I am using. Is
> > there anyway to just have all new windows appear in whichever monitor the
> > mouse is currently in? This seems like a better approach since the user
> > would presumably launch the window from the screen where they are working
> > with their mouse (or terminal from which they are launching a new GUI),
> > which would be where they would want it to land.
> >
> > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jordan Mendler
> >
> > jordanmendler.com | jmendler at ucla.edu
> >
> >
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>
> The sample rc.xml contains the following (especially ´"monitor" is
> interesting for you):
> <placement>
>  <policy>Smart</policy>
>  <!-- 'Smart' or 'UnderMouse' -->
>  <center>yes</center>
>  <!-- whether to place windows in the center of the free area found or
>       the top left corner -->
>  <monitor>Primary</monitor>
>  <!-- with Smart placement on a multi-monitor system, try to place new
> windows
>       on: 'Any' - any monitor, 'Mouse' - where the mouse is, 'Active' -
> where
>       the active window is, 'Primary' - only on the primary monitor -->
>  <primaryMonitor>1</primaryMonitor>
>  <!-- The monitor where Openbox should place popup dialogs such as the
>       focus cycling popup, or the desktop switch popup.  It can be an index
>       from 1, specifying a particular monitor.  Or it can be one of the
>       following: 'Mouse' - where the mouse is, or
>                  'Active' - where the active window is -->
> </placement>
>
> Cheers
> Andreas
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Jordan Mendler

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