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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal
tiling window managers are entirely responsible for application placement, the application has no control over it. Indeed in X11/wayland applications have no control over window size/placement at all, the window manager just takes the size and position requested by the application as a hint, where the window finally ends up is upto the window manager.
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Which is good. Because if you changed resolution or screen model or number/layout of screens since application was last run it could be entirely outside the view. There is a mouse grab combo key to hold down if the window is still visible but just no title bar. You can map it in Keyboard Settings to Windows Logo key which otherwise isn't useful. As an aside I map Caps Lock to Compose (disable Caps Lock and set both Shift for Caps Lock, either cancels, first). I used to Alt Space and arrow keys on Windows to move windows where title bar was lost.
P.S. I discovered the desktop "Panels" autohide just moves them almost past the viewport, so if one is on the right and you add a 2nd screen on the right, that screen has to be diagonally just above or below total length of the Panel or you see it on the 2nd screen.
Some applications don't remember and always open on default screen. Some always re-open on the same monitor if multiple screens.
I've found multiple monitors on Windows and Linux to be tricky since forever (maybe since 1998) so I now use a single 23" 4K screen as there are so many problems.