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How to fix: RubyMine does not remember last used monitor (on Ubuntu)

Arne Hartherz
May 15, 2012Software engineer at makandra GmbH

Every time I started RubyMine, it opened the main window on the left monitor -- when moving it to the center monitor and closing it, the next time it still opened up on the left one.

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Here is how I forced RubyMine to start up on a different screen:

  1. Un-maximize the main window
  2. Move it to your preferred monitor
  3. Close RubyMine (keep it unmaximized)
  4. Start RubyMine again.
  5. You may now maximize your main window; the next time you start up RubyMine, it will open on the correct screen, maximized.

That's crazy!

Posted by Arne Hartherz to makandra dev (2012-05-15 10:33)