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[AWIPS #QOO-180968]: Dual screen config

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  • Subject: [AWIPS #QOO-180968]: Dual screen config
  • Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2021 11:10:12 -0500
> Good morning! I have a dual-screen system and the monitor which gets
> AWIPS2 when I start it up seems to be quite random :) Is there a way
> to specify in the awips2 command line which monitor gets to have
> AWIPS2 running on it?
> 
> - Rob
> 
> 

I'm not sure if there's a way to specify this, however I don't think it is 
random. I believe it's whatever screen your mouse is currently on when CAVE 
opens ( I could be wrong, but I seem to think that's how it decides).

Thanks,

Tiffany Meyer
AWIPS Lead Software Engineer
UCAR-Unidata

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Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: QOO-180968
Department: Support AWIPS
Priority: Normal
Status: Open
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