tylerUndraggable Windows that Need RepositioningSat Jan 26th 09:39:50 2008
Before LeopardNow that I have a 24" LCD on my desk at work as well as home I'm running up against this problem more often. What happens is, sometimes a window ends up in a position on my desktop where I can't click on the title bar and drag it to a new position. Before Leopard I would try lots of different things... including blowing away plists to reset the start position when I reinvoke the app. The problem is compounded when you're constantly grabbing your machine to run to a meeting, and unplugging an external monitor. It can leave your apps scattered all over, and often times unreachable like I've escribed. Enter SpacesSpaces brings multiple desktops to Leopard. It's handy to keep windows such as email close at hand, but out of the way. It helps me to focus on tasks and keep my workflows on track. I do try to stay pragmatically responsive as well, minding the red badge of new message counts on mail.app's icon in the dock. A nice side effect of having spaces running is the ability to hit F8 and view all of my Spaces at once (see image). In this mode you can click any area of a window and move it. The original idea behind this behavior is to allow you to quickly move windows to different spaces, but it will also allow you to grab that sliver of undraggable window to a position, in any Space for that matter, where you can then get back to interacting with it.
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