[G4] Three monitor Finder oddity

[Darin Ames]

on 3/7/03 4:04 PM, Doug McNutt at douglist at macnauchtan.com wrote:

Doug,

Thanks for chiming in. I had posted this issuer to an Mac OS X list and not
a single person replied, so I really do appreciate your ideas.

My menu bar is on the center screen. I just tried it on the right display
(where the problem is) and the same issue occurred. As an experiment, I
arranged the right display to be under the center one. With this
arrangement, the problem was gone. Naturally, this is not a very natural
screen layout to deal with, so I'm back to dealing with my little forbidden
zone.

As another test I wiped a drive and installed 10.2 from scratch, testing the
display and spanned desktop as I went through updates. The problem was
present from a plain 10.2 all the way through to 10.2.4. So, this is at
least a 50% Mac OS X issue. The other part may be the video card and the way
Mac OS X handles it. Unfortunately, I don't have another MultiLink adapter
to try something like a Radeon 7000.

Any other ideas are very much appreciated.

Darin


> At 13:29 -0500 3/7/03, Darin Ames wrote:
>> Three display setup, Left to Right:
> 
> You don't say where your menu bar is.
> 
> I have four monitors - all CRT and not nearly so new as yours. Menu bar is on
> the center with two monochromes 1200 or so wide left and right and a 640x480
> above and centered. No problems until I attempt to use X-11.
> 
> The zero of Apple's screen space is at the top left of the menu bar. You
> should be able to to to +/- 16384 pixels from that. Positive means right and
> down.
> 
> Fou use with X-windows - which has nothing to do with MacOS neXt - Apple
> converts to all positive space with 0,0 at the far upper left of the rectangle
> which encloses all monitors. That gives me fits with X-11 because some UNIX
> apps want to put their initial windows a bit down and right of (0,0) where I
> have no monitor. It is conceivable that the X-windows conversion is going
> farther into the system than is intended by Apple.
> 
> Try moving your menu bar to the right monitor and see what happens. I think
> you can still drag it there with the monitors control panel - or whatever the
> OS neXt equivalent is.