Comment 8 for bug 1244397

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Philipp Prause (inkscape-phipra) wrote : Re: OS X Mavericks/XQuartz: limited support for multi-monitor setups

I have a related problem, pity that zabbarob's workaround does not work in my case:

Dual monitor setup (secondary screen above the MacBook Pro screen), MacBook Pro late 2008, Mavericks, Inkscape binary 0.48.2, XQartz 2.7.5.Mission control setting "Separate Screens for Spaces" enabled.

Inkscape does lanch, but I only see the bottom right corner of the Inkscape window, and there seems to be no way of getting the title bar into the visible screen area of any screen. Moving it into other space does not change the window location.
Zooming the window (via menu) sometimes (depending on monitor positions) results in the window being completely below the lower monitor, or sometimes getting the size of the larger monitor.
It seems that X11 mixes up the size / positions of the two monitors, or sometimes adds them together in some way-

I can open the Inkscape menus via keyboard commands, and they sometimes appear in a corner of the screen, so I managed to try Inkscapes own "full screen" option, but also this one did not help.

If its true this is a bug from Apple, I really hope Apple will fix it soon - Mavericks has been out for quite a while now...