ST3 launches on wrong display when used with multiple displays

[leemhenson]

ST3 dev build 3075 on OSX 10.10.2.

I have two external displays plugged into a macbook pro. They are arranged so one monitor is left of the macbook display, and one is to the right of the macbook display. I always run st3 on the macbook's display, but when I close st3 and then relaunch it again it always appears on one of the external displays. The choice of external display seems to be at random, but it never opens on the macbook display. This is frustrating because I always have to drag it over to the macbook display.

Using full screen mode with the 'remember full screen mode' exhibits the same issue. It launches in full screen mode, but it is full screen on one of the external displays.

It would be great if it could recall the display it was last running on, and use that one where possible.

[FichteFoll]

Never had problems with two monitors on Windows, so this might be an OS-specific issue.

[qgates]

Can't reproduce this on Linux either (Mint 17.1 x64, dualscreen thinkpad T430 docked). Sounds like it's Mac specific. It'd be useful to see if this affects all Macs (ie. OS specific), or just some configurations (ie. gfx hardware/driver specific).

[nrichards]

Is this the same issue as 'New window might open on the wrong monitor' #1099 ?

[FichteFoll]

No. It seems that issue is about a new window opening on a different display while this issue is about the first window, as far as I understand. They are related, however.

[mentler]

ST3 on Windows 7 Enterprise, Service Pack 1

This bug or something related is occurring on my system, so it's not Mac specific.

Behavior summary:
I last had ST3 open on an external monitor. I powered off my laptop and disconnected from the external monitor (I don't recall if I closed ST3 before doing this). I currently don't have access to an external monitor, and whenever I start up ST3 it runs just fine (I see the process running in my task manager and the icon is active on the taskbar) but I don't have a window to work with. I can toggle ST3 as the active program by clicking on the taskbar icon, and when I do this an animation shows an ST3 window expanding from the taskbar up and off the side of the screen, as if it's opening to some phantom external monitor. I also can see the open ST3 window's shadow on the edge of my screen. I don't have an external monitor connected, and I know my OS is aware (I have different system settings if an external monitor is connected, and I've also played with the OS monitor setup in an effort to work around this ST3 bug).

Workaround:
I used a keyboard shortcut to get around the issue. In extended display mode, Win + Shift + Arrow Key will move the active window around the various displays. This works for me, but if somebody on a different OS encounters the issue and doesn't have the keyboard shortcut, I expect they be out of luck until they can get to an external monitor.

[BenjaminSchaaf]

Does this still happen in Sublime Text 4?