[R-SIG-Mac] Using a second monitor, running R under Unix

[John Maindonald]

I am using a MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo, with an external screen  
connected that is set to appear above the MacBook Pro's screen.  The  
laptop's menu appear bar is set to appear at the top of the external  
monitor.

When I run R under ESS, or from the Unix command line, and type quartz 
(), the graphics window appears to the "left" of the external  
monitor.  Hitting the F9 key brings it into view, but there seems no  
way to grab it with the mouse and move it onto less ephemeral real  
estate.  [Under R.app, all is well.]

[With x11() half the window is off to the left, and I can drag it to  
anywhere I want (either screen).]

A further issue is that when I plot anything on the quartz screen, I  
get an "error: message, thus:

 > quartz()
Warning message:
quartz() device interactivity reduced without an event loop manager  
in: quartz()
 > plot(1:5, 1:5)
CGGStackRestore: gstack underflow.

The "CGGStackRestore: gstack underflow" message looks ominous, but it  
does not cause evident problems.

Is there something I can do so that the positioning of the second  
screen is recognized?  At some time in the past, I am sure that quartz 
() [ and x11()] used to correctly recognize the positioning of the  
screens.  However it is a while since I used quartz(), and I would  
not have paid too much attention to the x11() behaviour.
John Maindonald

 > sessionInfo()
R version 2.4.1 (2006-12-18)
i386-apple-darwin8.8.1

locale:
C

attached base packages:
[1] "splines"   "stats"     "graphics"  "grDevices" "utils"      
"datasets"
[7] "methods"   "base"


John Maindonald             email: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au
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