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Virtuoso, ADE etc. windows open on wrong display

itos

Hi,


Virtuoso, ADE etc. seems to open all windows on the left side!

I usually have two monitors with the primary monitor on the right and the secondary monitor on the left. Now Cadence opens all windows on my secondary monitor and I always need to drag them manually back to my primary monitor on the right.

Is there an option that Cadence just opens its windows on the same monitor?

Thanks

itos

EDIT: I use X-forwarding and/or xpra on Windows, so I do not access Cadence locally on a Linux box

  • There are some cdsenv settings for each of the tools to specify the default coordinates where windows are placed - so you could set those (I can't remember what they are called off the top of my head, and don't have the software handy).

    There's no real knowledge of multiple monitors in Virtuoso, so you can't really control it that way.

    Some X window managers give some level of control over window placement, but this is very dependent upon the window manager and also whether an application requests a specific coordinate position.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • The problem with any X-Terminal is that they save the last state of window position when open.Usually you have to clear session buffers.In your case, it would be great if you switch to Xming, their release after 2013 has probably fixed this issue (the last time I used it was a long while back).If you have OS-X, there is an option on dashboard itself to define default monitor for opening Xming windows.

  • I don't think this is true - most tools do not retain their window positions between separate invocations of the tool (at least not in my experience - maybe some window managers do).

  • Correction : The problem with any Few X-Terminal applications save last state of window position when invoked for the first time.When a user logs off from the Xterm session, he/she might expect to have window positions at the same place that was saved during last session (Xterm control sequence P s = 1 3).

    But yeah, Andrew is right, about separate invocations in most tools, very few tools have windows position state function.

  • Hi Andrew, Thanks. Do you have a pointer to the correct options? I tried using a couple of things including:

    envSetVal("asimenv.window" "x" 'int 1024)

    hiGetCIWindow()->formRelativeTo = "currentWindow"
    hiGetCIWindow()->optionFormRelativeTo = "currentWindow"

    hiGetCIWindow()->formPlacement = "right"
    hiGetCIWindow()->optionFormPlacement = "right"

    hiSetDBoxDefaultLocation(1921:1)
    hiSetFormPosition(1921:1)

    None of these things changed just a little bit. It's frustrating. The problem is that I can't really put my secondary monitor to the right hand side because it is essentially a tablet where I write on ...

    Regarding saving window positions: It does not seem they are saved for me. The library manager merely opens on random positions when I move the window and close it. When I do nothing, it always opens at (0,0) on my secondary monitor ...

  • Those settings are for forms and dialog boxes, not windows.

    You can use these ~/.cdsenv settings:

    layout leWindowBBox string "((120 185) (1020 875))"
    schematic schWindowBBox string "((120 185) (1020 875))"
    schematic symWindowBBox string "((120 185) (1020 875))"

    For the library manager, these settings or similar can be placed in ~/.libmgr :

    cdsLibManager.x: 200
    cdsLibManager.y: 186
    cdsLibManager.width: 925
    cdsLibManager.height: 711

    For the "browse" button on forms, these can be place din ~/.libsel

    cdsLibSelect.x: 986
    cdsLibSelect.y: 104
    cdsLibSelect.width: 925
    cdsLibSelect.height: 580

    Library manager and library select will remember their settings from last time though.

    If these don't help, please contact customer support.

    Regards,

    Andrew.

  • Hi Andrew,


    Thanks for the detailed lines!

    Incredible, still ignored, so frustrating.

    Actually, it also seems to me that the placement is non-deterministic: Windows are placed arbitrarily.

    Neither is it the last position, nor always the same.

    It's just 80% of the time the left most monitor. :-(

    itos

  • This may be something to do with the X server or Window Manager you're using... what are they?

  • It's xpra (alternatively just the Cygwin X server).

    However, it seems that Cadence requests these weird numbers. It's written directly in the window messages (see http://xpra.org/trac/ticket/811).

    Since the placement is really arbitrary (neither the last position, nor whatever I put into the config files) it really seems to me Cadence uses a random generator to make the behavior as non-deterministic as possible :-(

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