Leo is starting up off-screen

[Terrence-Monroe: Brannon]

At work, I have a docking station and two additional monitors. 

Previously, I moved the Leo editor to one of the external monitors.

However, those monitors are not working and even when I undock my laptop, Leo is starting on one of the external monitors and I have no way to move it back to my laptop screen.

Is there a settings file that I can remove so that Leo starts on the main laptop screen?

[Terrence-Monroe: Brannon]

I used Win + up-arrow to maximize the window. After which I could pull it down to my laptop screen.

Also I believe if I had removed $HOME/.leo/leo.session then the memory of which window to open in would have been forgotten?

[Edward K. Ream]

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:29 PM Terrence-Monroe: Brannon <thequie...@gmail.com> wrote:

I used Win + up-arrow to maximize the window. After which I could pull it down to my laptop screen.

Glad to hear it.

Also I believe if I had removed $HOME/.leo/leo.session then the memory of which window to open in would have been forgotten?

I think so. The data is in a cache somewhere, and leo.session is the likely place.

Edward

[Matt Wilkie]

[program] is starting on one of the external monitors and I have no way to move it back to my laptop screen.

This has happened to me on Windows for as long as I can remember, mid 1990s and Windows 3. It's rare, but I don't think a year has gone by where it hasn't occurred to me. At any rate, the most reliable and portable solution I've come across is:

• press [Alt]-[Tab] until the invisible program has focus
  
• press [Alt]-[spacebar] to bring up window controls (Move, Size, Min, Max, Close)
• then [M] to activate Move. A dotted or thin gray outline of window shape should appear
  
• then arrow cursor keys to move the outline centrally on active screen (usually right- and down-arrow)
  
• and finally [enter] when it's moved on-screen enough to nab the Title bar with the mouse cursor.

With Win7+ and window snap ( [Winkey]-[arrow] ) the process is a faster, but not all programs obey it. (Looking at you Adobe).

cheers,

-matt

[Edward K. Ream]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 12:51 AM Matt Wilkie <map...@gmail.com> wrote:

[program] is starting on one of the external monitors and I have no way to move it back to my laptop screen.

This has happened to me on Windows for as long as I can remember, mid 1990s and Windows 3. It's rare, but I don't think a year has gone by where it hasn't occurred to me. At any rate, the most reliable and portable solution I've come across is:

Thanks for this, Matt.

Edward

[Edward K. Ream]

On Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 3:45:35 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote:

> Thanks for this, Matt.

I've just copied your words to an entry in the FAQ. It's in LeoDocs.leo only, not on the web.

Edward

[Matt Wilkie]

Thanks for this, Matt.

You're welcome. :)  It's one of those secret moves that's burned into my cortex, hard won and scar tissue covered. I'm happy to pass it along.