[OT] Window placement with multi-head

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/28/07, Marius Groeger <mgroeger at sysgo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> this rather an ignorant question to the experts: when running a large
> framebuffer across multiple heads using MergedFB or xrandr1.2, how do
> applications decide where to open windows? Quite often I'm observing
> the effect that an application running on one screen opens a simple
> dialog on the other one, which obviously is quite confusing. Just out
> of curiosity: how's to blame for that? Can there be anything done
> about this?

a xinerama-aware (or unaware as the case may be) window manager deals
with the window placement.

Alex