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From: John McWilliams on 3 Jul 2010 16:02 Gerry wrote: > In article <i0o3pu$ef5$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > John McWilliams <jpmcw(a)comcast.net> wrote: > >> Gerry wrote: > >>> I would very much like to know how one would get a app who is off screen >>> back home just for future reference. >> Change the resolution to showing the most pixels possible. > > My monitor was already set to the largest size. Then do the opposite! -- john mcwilliams
From: Davoud on 3 Jul 2010 16:02 Gerry wrote: > One of my apps has decided it wants to open off to the right of my > screen how do I get it back on my screen so I can work with it? Setting the display to a different (incorrect) resolution and then setting it back to the proper resolution frequently fixes this problem. Davoud -- I agree with almost everything that you have said and almost everything that you will say in your entire life. usenet *at* davidillig dawt cawm
From: Gerry on 3 Jul 2010 16:09 In article <030720101602248997%star(a)sky.net>, Davoud <star(a)sky.net> wrote: > Gerry wrote: > > > One of my apps has decided it wants to open off to the right of my > > screen how do I get it back on my screen so I can work with it? > > Setting the display to a different (incorrect) resolution and then > setting it back to the proper resolution frequently fixes this problem. > > Davoud Did that. Set it to the smallest size and then the largest size, app still off the screen.
From: Tom Stiller on 3 Jul 2010 17:25 In article <everyday-F9A537.12305203072010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Gerry <everyday(a)sunrise.net> wrote: > In article <jollyroger-FCC284.13452703072010(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > In article <everyday-CD467B.11180203072010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > > Gerry <everyday(a)sunrise.net> wrote: > > > > > One of my apps has decided it wants to open off to the right of my > > > screen how do I get it back on my screen so I can work with it? > > > > Which app? > > > > Have you tried moving the preferences for this application out of the > > ~/Library/Preferences folder? > > RadioShark is the app, and I checked the Preferences and was unable to > locate any file for this app. > > I've fixed the problem by starting up from one of my external hard > drives and copying the RadioShark app from here to my internal drive, > replacing the old version. Rebooted and now everything is fine. > > The source of the problem may have been a game that I regularly play > that changes the screen resolution for the game and then resets it when > quitting, but today if forze and I was unable to force quit it so had to > do a hard reboot. But RadioShark was no an app that had been running at > that time so am unsure as to what caused the off-screen behaviour. > > I would very much like to know how one would get a app who is off screen > back home just for future reference. If you use Spaces, you can use the "activate" hotkey (or button) to get a miniature of the defined spaces and then drag the miniaturized window to a reasonable place in the space. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: dorayme on 3 Jul 2010 20:55
In article <everyday-F9A537.12305203072010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Gerry <everyday(a)sunrise.net> wrote: > I would very much like to know how one would get a app who is off screen > back home just for future reference. Change the res temporarily to higher if you can. If not, hook up another screen and use the monitor prefs to make both screens part of one big desktop. You can put the second screen left or right, top or bottom. Surely you will find it then. And, may I suggest that when you do, you give the app a damn good thrashing for making you go to so much trouble. There is probably an Applecript that can be written to set the size of any open app window and to bring it to some coordinate that you want (rather than where it is in outer space). I recall messing with such things once and also recall a program in Mac OS < X that key commands would control where windows went, it might have been script based? -- dorayme |