Moving all Maya windows to screen position 0,0

[Fredrik Averpil]

Hey,

From time to time, we have this issue where a panel or window which was launched within Maya doesn't show. Most of the time, it seems this is because monitor order or orientation was changed so the window appears off-screen.

This actually just happened with render globals for one of our artists.

I'd love to have a script available for these circumstances, which would find any Maya window and move it to e.g. screen #1's position @ 0,0.

Does anyone have any idea how to roll through any active windows, preferably via python, so that they can be fetched and then moved or maximized or whatever?

I'm looking at the "window" command from the docs, but I can't see anything on listing all windows.

Anyone?

// Fredrik

[ryan harrington]

Hi Fredrik,

 If you are using Windows (the OS) you should be able to do this by raising the Render View as the active panel (through the Window menu in Maya) then hold down the Windows key and hit your left arrow key. 

R

[Keith Rogers]

Give this a try.

for ($window in `lsUI -windows`) { window -e -tlc 0 0 $window ; }

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[Fredrik Averpil]

Hi Keith,

Awesome - this works, thank you!

But it doesn't manage to grab the V-Ray frame buffer window. I'll check with Chaosgroup to see why that is and perhaps I can add that manually to the code you provided...

[Fredrik Averpil]

Hm, it seems any PySide windows doesn't get fetched either ... and no detached UI windows, such as the channel box when detached/floating.

[Keith Rogers]

Oh yeah, I have the same problem, Go ahead and change it,  I'd be interested in a full solution.  The only tip I can give is close maya first at work if you intend to remote in from home and don't have two monitors. 

[Mark Serena]

controls flag will move the channelbox and attribute editor when undocked. My vRayFrameBuffer moved without that flag though, not sure why yours didn't.

Not sure about pyside windows

for each in cmds.lsUI( controls = True, windows = True):

    try:cmds.window(each, edit = True, topLeftCorner = (0,0))

    except:pass

[Fredrik Averpil]

Ah, the V-Ray 3 frame buffer does indeed move. But not the V-Ray 2.x frame buffer.

Regards,

Fredrik