Bug 370590 - Spectacle opens itself on the wrong screen
Summary: Spectacle opens itself on the wrong screen
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Spectacle
Classification: Applications
Component: General (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Arch Linux Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Boudhayan Gupta
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Reported: 2016-10-12 20:18 UTC by Peter Wu
Modified: 2019-07-12 04:33 UTC (History)
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Description Peter Wu 2016-10-12 20:18:32 UTC
When Spectacle is started (Print Screen or via the program selection), it opens on its last saved position. With multiple monitors, I would expect it on the screen where my cursor is.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Spectacle

Actual Results:  
Spectacle opens on the other screen, I have to move the pointer to use it.

Expected Results:  
Spectacle should open in the screen where the pointer is located.
Comment 1 Boudhayan Gupta 2019-06-12 08:03:58 UTC
On X11, we currently remember the last window geometry and restore it on the next use. On Wayland, this is impossible because windows cannot dictate where on the screen they want to be placed.

The consistent way to handle this would be to also never preserve geometry information on X11 and always open at a random position, but since the vast majority of our users are X11 based, this has the potential of annoying a lot of people.

@ngraham: What do you think from an usability PoV?
Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2019-06-27 04:33:08 UTC
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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2019-07-12 04:33:09 UTC
This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least
30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME
due to lack of needed information.

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