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[xfce] Dual screen - define which window to open documents

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http://ubuntuforums.org – Hi I run UBUNTU with xfce wm. By using xrandr i could define and setup the two screens. On one screen I have the main XFCE desktop with icons and toolbars etc. On the aother I am running a citrix session via remmina remote desktop client.This session is toggled into fullscreen. Problem is that when I am trying to open a file, word document, locally the document will open on the second screen behind the citrix session. To see it I need to toggle fullscreen off to be able to move the document back to the other screen. How can I define whicj screen should be default screen to open u (Hardware)

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Submitted by colm on 01/23/2013

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Running Xubuntu 12.04 32-bit.

for T's and G's, I recently tried out the "xfce session" as opposed to the default "xubuntu session," chosen from login screen.

However, now I can't change the default back to "xubuntu session"!

Someone please help this is a serious first world struggle!

I tried editing .dmrc in $HOME, but that didn't do anything.

Xfce 4.10 on Ubuntu 12.04.

With reference to apps running non-maximized, I notice that the first program I open opens in the top left corner of the screen. The next is aligned with the top right corner.

Is it possible to make Xfce window manager to open certain applications fullscreen by default? For example i want Emacs in Xfce to be always run fullscreen on start.

I tried searching through Xfce wiki, Xfce page on Arch wiki and Unix.SE with AskUbuntu, no solution yet.

One of our users has a Lenovo T400 laptop (6475-FM4) with Windows XP Professional installed on it. He has an external monitor that he has plugged in to his laptop which he is using to extend his desktop.

If you open up a document (say Word or Excel) that contains images and view it on the laptops screen you can scroll up and down the document and the images are displayed OK.

Last night I closed session normally and today I found many problems:

-No matter whether I try to start session on Unity, GNOME, Gnome-Classic, MATE, etc, it always start Xfce.

My situation is similar to the one described in How can I make flash fullscreen on an external display. I also have a laptop extended with a larger screen.

I use the screen program extensively. It has helped me tremendously by reducing the time spent in setting up session every day. However, now that I have >8 screens - I forget sometimes which screen I am in. Is there a way to find the name of the screen session that I am working in.

So, I installed the xubuntu-desktop package on my Lubuntu netbook, but when I went to login to a xubuntu session nothing happened. The screen simply went momentarily blank and then came up with the original login screen again.

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