[Leaplist] Force a TwinView display for Java app?

[Derek Konigsberg]

On Saturday 22 September 2007 5:44:40 pm Jason Boxman wrote:
> I've been playing with the Moneydance trial.  It's Java, though, so it
> doesn't seem understand that my display is actually stitched together with
> TwinView. Instead, it appears inbetween both monitors, the 'center' of my
> large display.  The last app I had with this problem was Gnucash 1, but
> they fixed that in 2.
>
> Is there some way to force display affinity under KDE or with some weird
> Java hack?  I seem to have Java version 1.5.x installed on this box.
>
> Thanks.
>
> (Heh.  The hack solution would be running it under VNC exported locally,
> but that's mostly retarded I think.)

Well, I can say (from a quick look-see) that the Java API does allow an 
application to detect the system's display configuration.  However, that only 
helps the application's developers fix it in code.  Couldn't hurt to tell 
them about the problem.

What do you think of Monkeydance (never heard of it before you mentioned it)?  
And why are you looking at it as opposed to GNUcash?  (honestly, the only 
reason I use GNUcash is because Quicken won't do Linux, and I've yet to find 
anything better.  Still feels like one of those apps good enough for 
advocates, however, but not polished enough for the real world.)

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