guake @Ubuntu 10.04 with two monitors

I love guake terminal on Ubuntu. However, it contains one flaw that is really painful having two monitors in a little less "standard" configuration.

I have a laptop and also use a larger external monitor in a configuration as below:

Guake terminal is designed to sit from the top of the screen, starting at the left border. 'Screen' is a keyword here, as the screen for those two monitors is a smallest rectangle containing both rectangles of those monitors. The effect is really astonishing:

(in fact, this is how Ubuntu sees my 'screen').

The problem has been already addressed here: http://www.dotmana.com/weblog/2011/02/guake-dual-screen-options/ and a patch has been issued: http://guake.org/ticket/201. However, it did not work for me. What I wanted to achieve is to have guake sitting on whichever monitor is placed higher (Samsung in this case).

I fixed it as follows:

petrelli@laps:~$ sudo gedit /usr/lib/guake/guake.py

Now look for function

def get_final_window_rect(self):

(it does guake windows positioning). This is the modified function body:

    def get_final_window_rect(self):

        """Gets the final size of the main window of guake. The height

        is the window_height property, width is window_width and the

        horizontal alignment is given by window_alignment.

        """

        screen = self.window.get_screen()

        height = self.client.get_int(KEY('/general/window_height'))

        halignment = self.client.get_int(KEY('/general/window_halignment'))

        # get the monitor that is placed higher and put guake on it

top_monitor = int(0)

monitors = int(screen.get_n_monitors())

for m in range(0, monitors):

window_rect = screen.get_monitor_geometry(m)

if(window_rect.y == 0):

top_monitor = m

break

        window_rect = screen.get_monitor_geometry(top_monitor)

        window_rect.height = window_rect.height * height / 100

        return window_rect

The result is following:

What is more, after disconnecting the external monitor, guake will appear properly on main monitor,  after reconnecting the external it will jump back where it is supposed to.

Cheers.