Bug 64552

Summary:	Application windows are placed on wrong screen (dualhead with xinerama)
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Ladislav Strojil <ladislav.strojil>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED REMIND
Severity:	normal	CC:	des, douglas.rafferty, mss
Priority:	NOR
Version:	3.2-beta
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Ladislav Strojil 2003-09-19 17:17:49 UTC

Version:            (using KDE Devel)
Compiler:          gcc 3.2 
OS:          Linux

Since recently (two days at max) new windows are sometimes placed on the wrong screen.
They used to be placed on the screen with mouse cursor. Now some of the windows are placed on the other screen.
This happens eg. for kcalc and ksirtet. If I am on screen 2 and start ksirtet using the minicli, it's placed on screen 1. 
This however does not happen with konsole. Konsole is always placed on the screen that has cursor.
I am using XFree 4.3 with Xinerama extention.

Comment 1 Josh Berry 2003-10-13 01:14:58 UTC

I can confirm this bug with recent KDE CVS (updated as of 12ish hours ago), though it 
behaves slightly different for me. 
 
With the mouse pointer in screen 1 (on the right for me), I opened 15 Konsoles, and all of 
them appeared on screen 2 (on the left). They continued opening on screen 2, even after 
every bit of empty space on that screen had been consumed by Konsoles. Screen 1 was 
completely empty. 
 
Most programs seem to want to open on screen 2 for some reason, regardless of where the 
mouse pointer is, or how much space is available on each screen. I have to move windows 
around after opening them; very inconvenient at times... 
 
Thanks in advance.

Comment 2 Lubos Lunak 2003-10-13 18:19:50 UTC

*** Bug 65930 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Malte S. Stretz 2004-01-08 21:19:42 UTC

I can't reproduce this with HEAD from yesterday night.

In the Control Center at
Peripherals->Display->Multiple Monitors
or
Desktop->Multiple Montiors
(one of them just went a way -- bug 72171 -- but I don't know which) there's an option to specify where "Unmanaged windows" should appear. Maybe changing that helps?

Comment 4 Lubos Lunak 2004-01-13 12:29:10 UTC

Could you please check with a more recent CVS version?

Comment 5 Lubos Lunak 2004-02-19 12:38:44 UTC

Waiting for a response.

Comment 6 Malte S. Stretz 2004-02-19 17:27:07 UTC

The only app for which this happens to me is Kuickshow which seem to use a weird "feature" to override KWin's placing algorith since ages (it always did that). Everything else works fine, at least in respect to this bug :)

Comment 7 Mark 2007-06-03 14:02:06 UTC

I have that annoying problem with kuickshow, too. Please reopen. The proposed solution from comment #3 does not work.

Comment 8 Lubos Lunak 2007-06-04 14:31:22 UTC

If it's kuickshow-specific, please file a new bugreport for it (not that, frankly, I think that'd help, Kuickshow hasn't been maintained for quite a while).