[tomboy-list] note opens up off-screen on windows

[Randy Syring]

Thanks for the suggestion, I found similar instructions here that worked:

http://www.techspot.com/guides/226-bring-lost-window-back-desktop/

Should tomboy recognize that the secondary monitor is no longer 
available and open the note on-screen?

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On 03/03/2011 11:42 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 3 March 2011 16:39, Randy Syring<rsyring at inteli-com.com>  wrote:
>> I have an employee that is using tomboy on a laptop.  The last time he used
>> it, he had the note on the secondary monitor.  He has since went somewhere
>> else with the laptop and now only has the primary monitor.  But tomboy is
>> opening the notes window in the last location, which is on the secondary
>> monitor, which is no longer connected, so he can't see the notes windows.
>>
> I used to get this a lot when I moved around from one machine to another.
>
> The quick/easy way is get the user to open the note and make sure it's
> got the focus by clicking it in the window list. Then press ALT+Space
> to bring up the window context menu (which will appear _on_ screen),
> choose 'Move' and then drag it on screen with the cursor keys. Horrid,
> but it works.
>
> Al.
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