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Safari Opening on Wrong Monitor
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MadBrowser
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May 10, 2005, 12:03 PM
 
I have two monitors (built in PB display and external LCD).

Since upgrading to Tiger, when I open Safari it displays its initial window on the external display. Always.

It's nice that it remembers but I would like it to open on the built in display.

Do you guys know how to get OS X to 'forget' which monitor to use (hopefully it will revert to the primary display).

Any ideas?
     
MadBrowser  (op)
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May 12, 2005, 12:51 PM
 
Anyone know what preference file remembers window positions?
     
Xeo
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May 12, 2005, 12:55 PM
 
I'm not sure, but I had this problem too. I fixed it by changing the size of the window slightly once I moved it to the display I wanted it on.

It was very annoying.
     
MadBrowser  (op)
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May 12, 2005, 02:02 PM
 
That WORKS!

Wow.

Strange.
     
TheJoshu
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May 12, 2005, 07:01 PM
 
Closing/opening a new Safari window in the place you want it will also do the trick.
     
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May 12, 2005, 10:38 PM
 
Dunno if you are running Tiger, but that's the first thing I tried when I had this issue. I'm used to the behavior that wherever I close a window, the new one will open. This is how the Finder behaves and how I believe Safari use to behave. But it is not behaving like that in Tiger.
     
   
 
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