Windows dialog placement

[Bill Ricker]

I have the same situation ... although I have desktop Linux at home, I
have to access my *n[iu]x at $DayJob through PuTTY and
Hummingbird/eXceed, but have dual-head which makes it berable..

I have a monitor attached to the $DayJob laptop docking station and
set the laptop (Win XP)'s DockingMode to dual monitor, with the
external as primary, with the layout adjusted based on one being lower
and smaller than the other. Most apps pop up upper-left or centered on
the primary, some remember where they last were closed, but some other
poorly  behaved apps pop open their dialogs centered on the
convex-hull of the two screens. Ugly.

Luckily for me, the ugly is the rarest

(And i'm not sure if it was centering or offset-right and the app 
launching it was thin-bar on the right of the left screen. Moving it
to the left of the left screen may have solved that one.)

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Bill
n1vux at arrl.net bill.n1vux at gmail.com