Original von epte
Noticing that you wanted this to be a default location, assuming that the test run worked, it would be possible to set the DISPLAY variable in your .bash_profile. I'm not sure if that would have the desired effect (would too much go to the alternate screen?) but it would be worth a shot.
I ran into some issues when I tried doing that command... it seems that xinerama is causing one issue... so I turned off the KDE xinerama support and got a second issue.
When xinerama was enabled and window placement support is on... most programs actually default to the 1st window... (display 0) Which is good.
When I tried to use the command you gave to switch the display the app started on it would only defualt to the xineram defualt.. in other words they would only open up on the right monitor, display 0.
When KDE xinerama support was disabled the programs would defualt to display 1... and when I trired to use that command they would *still* defualt to display 1 instead of going to display 0 with command display=:0 /usr/local/netscape/netscape (display 1 being the secondary monitor on the left of the primary monitor)
Which looks to mean that the command you gave me is not working.
Further some apps would still defualt to display 0 even after xinerama was turned off. One of these excpetions was XMMS. And that app would only open on to display 0 even if I tried to force it using display=:1 xmms
Here's my XF86Config file if that helps you any:
www.geocities.com/claudetyler/XF86Config.html
Thanks for your help!