Aux window: open issue reporter on current screen

[justschen]

atm, when you open a new aux window when your main vs code window is in another secondary screen/monitor, it will open the aux window the main screen/monitor.

• in these two examples, i have one large curved secondary monitor where vs code is.
• open an aux window, and it spawns it in my laptop's screen.
• same thing if full screened on secondary monitor. different when full screen on main screen (see Aux window: prevent fullscreen for issue reporter #224136)

for.issue.reporter.using.aux.mov

for.move.to.new.window.mov

wondering if there is a way it can spawn on the current screen? ie, centered to where the vs code window is.

[bpasero]

@justschen that should be possible if you provide the coordinates for where to open the window via IAuxiliaryWindowOpenOptions:

vscode/src/vs/workbench/services/auxiliaryWindow/browser/auxiliaryWindowService.ts

Line 244 in d12c0c7

async open(options?: IAuxiliaryWindowOpenOptions): Promise<IAuxiliaryWindow> {

You would have to calculate the right coordinates based on all opened monitors, which is a bit tricky and probably requires you to go to the main process to do the math. This could be exposed from the nativeHostMainService.

Alternatively, another custom vscode feature flag that allows you to pass in the identifier of a window to center the issue reporter over.

[vs-code-engineering]

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