Re: bug with Amaya standalone on MacOsX when using an external display

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 11:29, Mathieu Mangeot-Nagata wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Usually, I'm using my powerbook laptop to work with Amaya.
>
> Yesterday, I found a nice 19' external display that I plugged into my
> mac. I could work with two screens. I had a lot of room to play with.
> So I launched Amaya and worked with it on the new screen. Then, I
> decided to switch off the external
> display because my mac was getting hot (it's an old one). I
> redetected the displays (in order for the mac to know that there is
> now only one display, the laptop one) and everything went fine.
>
> Today, I did not plug the external display and when I launched Amaya,
> the windows did not appear on my laptop screen. I thought that it
> might be because yesterday I plugged the external display and I was
> right. I replugged the external display, moved my windows back to the
> laptop display, then mirrored the two displays (in order to change
> the Amaya display preferences) and now it is OK, when I open a new
> window, it appears on my laptop screen.
>
> I was lucky because the external display was still on my desk.
> Otherwise, I would probably have to delete the Amaya preferences file...

I'll check if Amaya can detect when the initial window is displayed out of the 
current screen size.
Meanwhile you can only remove the line Wx_Window= in your $HOME/.amaya/thot.rc 
file

>
> Mathieu
>
> Mathieu MANGEOT-NAGATA
> Condillac - LISTIC - Université de Savoie
> Campus Scientifique
> F-73376 LE BOURGET DU LAC CEDEX
> Tel: +33 4 79 75 81 89 / 87 85

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