Re: Restricting new windows to primary display?

[William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com>]

Hi,

This sounds reasonable to me. We also have some other mutter bugs open
for odd behaviors for new window placement.

I'm not really clear on what rules it uses now.

Jon

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:45 PM, Adam Tauno Williams
<awilliam whitemice org> wrote:
> I almost always run my laptop connected to a second display.  This works
> *AWESOME* [thank you GNOME and Xorg people].  The workspaces, et all
> stick to the primary [built-in] laptop display and the second display is
> global.  I like how that works.
>
> Frequently that second display is a BIG screen or a projector and I show
> people stuff on that display and continue to use the primary display
> myself.  But if I open a new window or application.... sometimes it
> appears on the primary display, sometimes it appears on the secondard
> display.  This is annoying/distracting.
>
> Is there a means to have new applications *always* open on the primary
> display?  Then I can move them to the secondary display if I wish to.
>
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