LISA conference, Fedora, and the sysadmin use case.

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 14 19:58:11 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Máirín Duffy <duffy at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 01:51 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> - no way of saying "launch on this monitor"
>
> Somewhat related to this is when dialogs for the same app pop up on a
> different monitor. E.g. I spent a lot of time in LibreOffice and I've
> noticed a lot of times when I open up a dialog (like, say, 'Sections' or
> 'Fonts') it pops up on the second monitor, where I'm not looking, so I
> keep clicking thinking LO has crashed or something.
>
> Another way this manifests... if you're in Evolution or Thunderbird on
> screen 1 and open up an attachment - depending on the app it opens up
> in, the attachment will display on screen 2. Again unexpected. Happens
> when opening something from nautilus sometimes.

Is your mouse pointer on the second monitor when any of this happens?


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