Persistent geometry in changing multi-screen environment

[mtaki14]

This is just a minor annoyance, but whenever switching from a smaller to a bigger screen KP awkwardly changes position. Just wondering if there's a more robust way to save the screen position, for example relative to the screen's edges.

[polyvertex]

Does it mean you are in a multi-screen environment?
What do you mean by changes position?
"Provide step-by-step instructions so we can reproduce the issue"

[mtaki14]

At the moment I use a 19" monitor at work connected to my laptop and extend the screen to both. I use KP on the 19" monitor and leave it at around the middle of the screen.

When I go home I connect my laptop to a 24" screen, but do NOT extend the screen on both. I just use the 24" screen. But once the system starts KP appears at around the bottom left of the screen (I'll have to confirm this once I get home) and I have to readjust its position.

[polyvertex]

Could you copy all the log lines starting with Monitor # for each your "home" and "work" config? KP logs them only when started. There might be several Monitor # lines per hardware/docking config, so copy all of them for each config. Separated.

They look like: Monitor #1: Name[\\.\DISPLAY1] Rect[0, 0, 1920, 1200] DpiScale[1.00] PRIMARY

[mtaki14]

Work:
Monitor 1: Name[.\DISPLAY1] Rect[0, 0, 1366, 768] DpiScale[1.00] PRIMARY
Monitor 2: Name[.\DISPLAY2] Rect[-1366, 0, 0, 768] DpiScale[1.00]

Home:
Monitor 1: Name[.\DISPLAY1] Rect[0, 0, 1920, 1200] DpiScale[1.00] PRIMARY

[polyvertex]

Which one is the 19" monitor on your work config?

[mtaki14]

The "PRIMARY" one. It's a old monitor with a low resolution threshold as you can see :/

[mtaki14]

Have you managed to reproduce the behaviour described?

[polyvertex]

I took some time for this one. Microsoft's API documentation is almost inexistant when it comes to changing multi-screen environments. I addressed this issue partly in v2.5.3 but changes do not really apply to your use-case since KP always runs on the same machine.

Which means I actually have to make extensive tests with different screen configurations myself to see how Windows APIs react, if I want the fix to really work in any situation. Unfortunately I don't have the required hardware for that, I only have a small laptop to work with these days. And putting a VM on it is cumbersome.

Bottom line is, I understand this is inconvenient and this must be fixed, but you'll have to wait for it a bit more unfortunately. Sorry for that.

[polyvertex]

Starting with next release and if the geometry setting is set to persistent, Keypirinha will record window's position and size according to current monitors setup. If user happens to change their monitors' configuration, KP will check whether this configuration is known (i.e. KP window has already been dragged around before, in persistent mode, while this specific monitors setup was active):

• If it is (known), KP will just use the last pos and size of the window that was set by the user while being on that monitors config in the past
• Otherwise, KP will translate and scale the previous pos and size of the window according to the current position and size of the primary monitor, so it feels like the window is positioned the same way than before

EDIT: This mechanism has been implemented for both LaunchBox and Console windows.

[polyvertex]

Implemented in 2.9