Screens should be ordered by default from left to right about slate HOT 6 CLOSED

Good call. Unfortunately the screen IDs apple uses are ordered in the following order:

0 = always main screen (the screen with the menu bar)
after that, they are ordered in the order in which they were plugged in.

I'll try to add a config option that will make the screen IDs go from left to right, and map them internally to the screen IDs that apple uses.

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Ah -- just thought of something interesting. Screens are also allowed to be above/below. I'll make it so it starts at 0 at the top-left screen and fills in this order:

0  1  2  3
4  5  6  7

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Yes, that would be great. In case the API doesn't give you that information, you could of course determine a screen's position from the bounding rect of each nsscreen in relation to the others.

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This kicks my butt every day -- sending a window to screen #N is not reliable as those numbers are always changing around.

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Finally got to this in 0.4.9. Sorry, real life gets to me when the dancing season starts.

Here is how it works:

Default (no work on your part): screens are ordered from left to right (by the top-left origin X coordinate, falling back on Y coordinate if they are the same). This means they are not ordered as I listed in my above comment.

If you want to use the old style ordering, you can set the config "orderScreensLeftToRight" to false. By setting this to false, the default handling of screen IDs remains how it was in 0.4.8, but you can also use the "ordered:" prefix to the screen ID to make it work for that particular binding as if "orderScreensLeftToRight" was true.

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Just tried it and it works great. Thanks again!

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