Re: New window placement (was: Re: Focus stealing prevention)

[Santhosh Hiriyur Shankar <sshankar novell com>]

On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 07:28 -0500, Larry W. Virden wrote:
> From: uws <uws xs4all nl>
> > Another Metacity enhancement request: open new windows on the screen the
> > mouse cursor is on. A lot of new windows are placed on my secondary monitor,
> > while I'm working on the first one.
> > 
> > Is this a useful feature for Metacity?
> 
> Perhaps this needs to be a preference.  I know myself that I want
> new application windows to appear on the same monitor and
> workspace as the parent application window .

Behaviour of "New Window Placement" in workspace where user has focus to
bring the attention of user to that particular application which had a
reason to open a new window is more appropriate in many ways.