Re: Restricting new windows to primary display?

[Florian Müllner <fmuellner gnome org>]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 8:05 PM, William Jon McCann <william jon mccann gmail com> wrote:

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.

Windows that are placed automatically (e.g. for which the application / the user did not request a specific position) are shown on the monitor which holds the pointer. I suppose the rational is that the pointer is an indication for the user's current focus, so when we consider all monitors as equals, the behavior does make sense. Obviously this is not the case for our default mode, so I filed https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675703   :-)


Florian