dons@cse.unsw.edu.au (Donald Bruce Stewart) writes:
xmonad:
I'm finding that pop-up dialogs seem sometimes to appear on the wrong screen. Wrong in the sense that at the time, the focused window is on the other screen, so I'm expecting a transient on that window to appear on the same screen (at least initially).
Very interesting You have a specific app that seems to do this?
synaptic: the dialog that tells about other packages that will be removed or added. So if you ask to remove libc6 or something, the dialog that pops up warning about dependencies seems to appear at (0,0), regardless of where the main synaptic window is. kaffeine: when playing a movie, pressing v pops up a dialog controlling some video settings. That appears: xwininfo: Window id: 0x120078e "Video Settings - Kaffeine Player" Absolute upper-left X: 640 Absolute upper-left Y: 307 Relative upper-left X: 640 Relative upper-left Y: 307 Width: 449 Height: 249 even when the main kaffeine window is Absolute upper-left X: 1280 Absolute upper-left Y: 0 Relative upper-left X: 1280 Relative upper-left Y: 0 These are (I guess) application bugs, but it feels like the kind of thing a window manager could fairly easily work around. It probably makes sense to do so in xmonad, since the transients are much harder to interact with in this case than in other window managers.