[Chimera-users] [Chimera] #8137: undesirable window placement (was: Chimera bug report submission)

[Eric Pettersen]

Guy Nimrod wrote:
> When I do an action that opens a new window (e.g. ‘file’ -> ‘save  
> session as’ or ‘file’-> ‘fetch by ID’), it seems that the new window  
> is located in a random position. Sometimes it is out of the borders  
> of the screen which is very problematic.

Hi Guy,
	I think the new window-placement behavior is an improvement for most  
people.  Nonetheless, it seems to be a problem for you so I've changed  
it into a preference (with the new behavior as the default).  Starting  
with tomorrow's daily build there will be a preference in the General  
category called "Try to avoid placing dialogs over main window" which  
you can change to "false".  Unfortunately the daily build for Windows  
hasn't been working lately, so it may be a few days before you can get  
a version with this preference available...

--Eric

                         Eric Pettersen
                         UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                         http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu


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