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by **Ralph2** » Fri 13 Nov, 2009 10:29 pm

I am about to dump version 2 and return to 1.1. I have two monitors, on occasion I will move my browser window to the second monitor while working on my main. With SeaMonkey 1.1x it had the good sense to open on what ever monitor it was closed on. Not so with 2.0, try as I will it keeps opening on my second monitor...

Anyone with any tricks to make it open on the monitor it was shut down on?

Thanks

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by **PaulD** » Sat 14 Nov, 2009 2:08 am

Just a wild stab in some direction -
How are you initiating SeaMonkey?
If from a desktop shortcut, try going through Start > All Programs > ...
If this works, then it appears that the desktop shortcut has a monitor identifier embedded within it. I don't know what-all information is included in shortcuts.

If this doesn't work: what happens if you temporarily disable the second monitor (via Control Panel > Display > ...)?

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by **Ralph2** » Sat 14 Nov, 2009 1:49 pm

Interesting bug. If I disable the second monitor all browser windows open on the main as I would expect. However as soon as I revert back to using the second monitor the issue returns and all browser windows open on that (second) monitor. It does not seem to matter where the link originates.. as in the link that this message had a response in my email opens on the second monitor. As do any bookmarks.

When SeaMonkey installs Programs > SeaMonkey one of the selections is a "safe mode" It opens on the correct monitor. But only if there is no other SeaMonkey window open, if there is then it (safe mode) opens on the second monitor. Moving it (safe mode) to the second monitor and back does not (yet) corrupt it.

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by **PaulD** » Sat 14 Nov, 2009 2:05 pm

1. Is this on a laptop?
2. Is there a way to specify, somewhere in the Display properties, which monitor is 'primary'?

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by **Ralph2** » Sat 14 Nov, 2009 6:06 pm

No Paul D, this is on my desktop computer. Windows XP SP3 with an ATI All-In-Wonder 9600 graphics card. Catalyst Control Center v7.5 (most drivers seem to be 6.14.1)

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by **PaulD** » Sat 14 Nov, 2009 9:09 pm

From a Google Search [ "multiple monitors" "wrong monitor" ], a couple of hits may be germane:
Microsoft - but your previous reply seems to preclude this. Is there anything else here that applies?
Firefox bug now fixed. But given that SM 2 has been in development for an extended period it is possible that the fix that went into FF didn't make it into SM.

This looks like a candidate for a bug report.
http://forums.mozillazine.org/ - mozillaZine Index page
SeaMonkey Bugs forum

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by **Ralph2** » Mon 16 Nov, 2009 9:45 pm

After putting up with this behavior all weekend it seems to have fixed itself. And, if it was fixed by clicking on a specific URL then that is stranger still.

Like I mentioned all weekend I had to put up with the browser opening on my second monitor and no matter what I tried... if my second monitor was running the browser.. from any bookmarks, desktop shortcuts or email links would open on the second monitor. Then while on the second monitor (I gave up and let it stay there) I clicked the URL for the weather station which is on my home page... and... I was surprised when that (the weather station) opened on my main monitor. I mean all my browsing had been taking place on the second monitor so this was very noticeable.

And since then the browser has behaved properly.. I can move it over to the second.. shut it down there.. restart from a shortcut and the browser opens on the main.

Strange stuff... will have to see if it stay right.. and if it reverts will that weather station URL fix it again

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by **PaulD** » Tue 17 Nov, 2009 12:34 am

Alice in Wonderland ... deja vu all over again ... weatherman always rings twice ...
If again there is an anomaly - if you can afford to - clear cache and all cookies. I don't see how anything therein could be a corrupting influence, but you certainly have a strange set of symptoms to experiment with.

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by **Ralph2** » Wed 25 Nov, 2009 10:10 pm

After a week of no problems suddenly the problem of opening on the wrong monitor has re occurred.. and clicking on the link that seemed to fix it last it last time is not working. Obviously that was just a coincidence.. but this points to some sort of bug I would think.

Anyone with any thoughts on how to fix this please speak up.

To reiterate the problem.. I have two monitors and frequently will move a page to the second monitor while working on the main. Sometimes I close the page on the second monitor and sometimes I move it to the main and close it. When I first installed SeaMonkey 2 this problem arose almost immediately then "mysteriously" fixed itself. Now after ~10 days of normal usage.. the problem has returned. Disabling the second monitor of course means it will work on the main.. but as soon as I activate the second monitor it returns.

All this on a Windows Xp sp3 desktop

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by **Edward** » Sun 29 Nov, 2009 1:54 pm

Go to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ and file a bug report. You may want to search for this problem first, in case a similar bug has already been reported and it may have a solution.

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by **Ralph2** » Sun 29 Nov, 2009 2:17 pm

Thank you... seems there over 200 other items on this multi monitor problem.
Thank you for the link.. it seems to be somewhat active. The link someone else gave me or I found somehow http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=5&start=0 seems to be worth nothing

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