Done! I’d love to have FMN working, or an OS feature that does the same thing.

I’d love for FMN to work in Leopard. I just submitted a bug… have you heard anything else since the initial communication?

Do you know of any other tools that accomplish something similar to FMN?

Thank you very much!

@trc: No, I don’t know of anything that works like FMN. Having said that, I’m actually running FMN under Leopard now and it sort of sometimes works. It’s not _reliable_, but it’s better than nothing I suppose…

Submitted a bug, hope they fix this.

I also submitted a bug. Here’s hoping!

No news from the Apple engineers I assume? Would love to see FMN revived…
(Did vote too)

Do you know if this work in snow leopard? Did they include the api in snow leopard?

I did a small bit of testing and it seemed to work a *bit* better, but I haven’t had time to give it a real workout. You should try it yourself.

tried on a snow leopard (10.6.2) – mainly fmn works.
spotted two bugs:
1. fmn launches x11 by itself
2. fmn saves windows’ sizes, but not always windows’ position (fine when attaching second monitor, but windows go down about half screen when detaching it).
If needed, I can post screens or any other additional info. hope this would help to revive the project!

@Botsvein: Thanks for testing FMN.

1. I’m aware of the X11 issue — it’s due to a change in X11 that’s existed since Leopard. It wouldn’t be tough to solve that problem, but it didn’t seem worth it since FMN didn’t work properly anyhow.
2. That’s the main problem. Since Leopard, the technique FMN used for getting window positions became unreliable. I think there may also be a problem when you have multiple spaces enabled as well — the windows on the current space are saved and restored but others aren’t.

I find Snow Leopard’s built-in window placement when going from 1->2 displays and back again to be worse than in Leopard. Arg. I guess there’s really no hope of this improving unless Apple provides the API needed by FMN?