Hi Eliot:
On 11 Jan 2010, at 19:26, Eliot Miranda wrote: > Hi Stefan, > > not much of a comfort but as a work-=around I *think* you can fix the > problem either by > - disconnecting the second monitor, which will rearrange all the windows onto > your laptop screen, and then reattach the second monitor > or > - choosing Turn On Mirroring from the displays menu, which will also > rearrange windows, and then turn off mirroring No, it does not. I have to explicitly go to my monitor arrangement settings and restore the configuration I have at home. Just experienced it again. Any idea where I could start to look at that? Thanks Stefan > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 4:34 AM, Stefan Marr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello: > > I just had a very annoying experience with the lake of sufficient window > management tools on Mac OS X. (Annoying enough to write this mail...) > > > The following happened: > > At home I have a external screen attached to my mac book, it is configured to > be a secondary screen positioned above the main (internal) screen. > > The Pharo window was moved to that screen. > > In the office, I have another configuration, and there was no way to get hold > of the Pharo window anymore. > > It remembered its positioning and was just of screen. Expose allows me to see > it, and shows even a beautiful animation moving it out of reach after > clicking on it. > > Obviously the menu SqueakVM > Quit is not really helpful, since the question > whether to save or not is displayed unreachable off screen, too. > > > > I am not sure whether the standard OS X window menu functionality with > "minimize" and "zoom" would help here, but might be a start. On the other > hand, I would guess, that the OSX windowing systems sends some events which > could be handled like all other windows do. > > > The only workaround for the moment, is to have a external screen and fiddle > with the screen configuration and positioning until I can get hold of the > window... Not exactly convenient. > > > Best regards > Stefan > > -- > Stefan Marr > Software Languages Lab > Vrije Universiteit Brussel > Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium > http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr > Phone: +32 2 629 3956 > Fax: +32 2 629 3525 > > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project > > _______________________________________________ > Pharo-project mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project -- Stefan Marr Software Languages Lab Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium http://soft.vub.ac.be/~smarr Phone: +32 2 629 3956 Fax: +32 2 629 3525 _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
