kyma•tweaky: Know DualMonitorsNotSavingWindowPositions

Problem

I have a Mac and two monitors and I like to put different windows spread out over the two monitors. Each time load I everything goes back to where it was before.

-- BillBlack -02 January 2004

Solution

As a workaround, place the menu bar on the left-most (or uppermost) monitor of a multi-monitor system.

Here's what's going on: The Mac OS defines the upper left corner of the menu bar as (0,0). Thus, any screen real estate to the left of or above the menu bar has negative coordinates. In Kyma, window positions are clipped to (0,0) so you can't use any of that "negative area".

Changing this will impact all aspects of the graphics so it it is a more dangerous change than it might seem at first. So if you don't mind moving the menu bar onto the left monitor for the time being, it will give us time to work out all the unanticipated implications. thanks.

-- CarlaScaletti - 06 Jan 2004

This has been fixed in Kyma X.05.

-- KurtHebel - 23 Jan 2004

WebForm
TopicClassification:	Solved
BriefDescription?:	Macintoshes with multiple monitors not remembering window locations if menu bar not on left monitor
OperatingSystem:	Mac OS9, Mac OSX
LapOrDesk?:
HostProcessor?:	PowerPC? G5, PowerPC? G4, PowerPC? G3
ClockSpeedInMHz?:	N/A
RAMInMB?:	0-127, 128-255, 256-511, 512-1023, 1024-2047, 2048+
CapyInterface?:	Flame, PCI, PCMCIA
KymaVersion?:	KymaX?, Kyma5
CapybaraVersion?:	Capy320, CapyLS?, Capy66, Capy33, OriginalCapy?
ExpansionCards?:	None, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
VirtualMemory?:	N/A
MonitorSize?:	12, 15, 17, 21, >23
NumberMonitors?:	2, 3, >3
NumberColors?:	8 bit (256), 16 bit (thousands), 24 bit (millions), 32 bit (true color)
GraphicsCard?:	N/A
OtherHardware?:	N/A
OtherSoftware?:	N/A

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