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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Bug found

From: Andrew Hood <ajhood@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 10:35:06 +1100
Bill Meier wrote:
...
> This issue appears to be similar to (the same ?) as that reported in
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=553.
> 
> In the comments near the end there's a reference to a GIMP code
> workaround (related to a GTK bug) for a similar issue and then a comment
> about a fix was committed for Wireshark.
> 
> There's then a report that the prooblem still exists, a pointer to a
> similar bug report and so on.
> 
> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?revision=34265&view=revision
> is a link to the code change done ....
> 
> Feel free to add any comments & etc to the bug report.
> 
> Suggestions as to a fix are certainly welcome...   :)

This seems to be a fairly common problem with lots of apps on
multi-monitor Windows systems, and exists back to XP and probably earlier.

It causes so much grief (notably with Citrix hosting Exceed) that I gave
up and only let Windows use multiple monitors if they have the same
resolution.

Andrew
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