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Finder or application window offscreen
by Neoteric at 7:59 pm EST, Feb 9, 2007 |
Sometimes, a Finder or application window will open partially or completely off the screen, and cannot be moved back into a visible area; most often, this happens if one of the monitors is removed from a multiple-monitor system. In this situation, the whole window can be moved back into a visible area by opening the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and running the following: tell application "Finder"
set bounds of window 1 to {202, 103, 817, 508}
end tell Replace the application's name and the window's number as necessary. The window can be specified by number or by name.
Stupid frikkin os x. I hate the window manager. It sucks and sometimes some windows get into places where you can't resize them. This is the bit of applescript you need to fixx0r anything. --timball |
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RE: Finder or application window offscreen
by k at 7:04 pm EST, Feb 10, 2007 |
Neoteric wrote: Sometimes, a Finder or application window will open partially or completely off the screen, and cannot be moved back into a visible area; most often, this happens if one of the monitors is removed from a multiple-monitor system. In this situation, the whole window can be moved back into a visible area by opening the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and running the following: tell application "Finder"
set bounds of window 1 to {202, 103, 817, 508}
end tell Replace the application's name and the window's number as necessary. The window can be specified by number or by name.
Stupid frikkin os x. I hate the window manager. It sucks and sometimes some windows get into places where you can't resize them. This is the bit of applescript you need to fixx0r anything. --timball
huh. that has honestly never happened to me even once in all my years. |
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RE: Finder or application window offscreen
by dc0de at 9:41 pm EST, Feb 10, 2007 |
k wrote: Neoteric wrote: Sometimes, a Finder or application window will open partially or completely off the screen, and cannot be moved back into a visible area; most often, this happens if one of the monitors is removed from a multiple-monitor system. In this situation, the whole window can be moved back into a visible area by opening the Script Editor in the /Applications/AppleScript/ folder and running the following: tell application "Finder"
set bounds of window 1 to {202, 103, 817, 508}
end tell Replace the application's name and the window's number as necessary. The window can be specified by number or by name.
Stupid frikkin os x. I hate the window manager. It sucks and sometimes some windows get into places where you can't resize them. This is the bit of applescript you need to fixx0r anything. --timball
huh. that has honestly never happened to me even once in all my years.
OMG!!! OSX has become the next Microsoft Windows!!! This happens some of the time on my multi-monitor XP system, when I undock my laptop that has a 2nd monitor connected! Sorry Apple, you suck like windows! [I'm a Mac, and I'm a PC]
mac: I can support multi monitors natively
pc: and you suck at it like I do...
mac: well, I have apple script to fix it
pc: well I have 20 zillion 3rd party applications to fix it...
both in unison: yes, we suck. |
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RE: Finder or application window offscreen
by Neoteric at 11:27 pm EST, Feb 10, 2007 |
k wrote:
huh. that has honestly never happened to me even once in all my years.
I have one of the dell 30" monitors so when I'm at my desk in the office I get a *huge* amount of real estate (for xterms) and when you unhook the other monitor the windows sometimes get into a state where they're off the edge of the screen. It's annoying. A lot. --timball |
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