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
> 
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> Vrije Universiteit Brussel
> Pleinlaan 2 / B-1050 Brussels / Belgium
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