Getting off-screen windows onscreen?

[fredex]

On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 10:27:09AM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Kevin Broderick wrote:
> > Perhaps I'm overlooking something, but is there any way to get a "Find
> > Customer" or "Find Vendor" window that has appeared above the top of my
> > screen to move into the middle of it?  I can't get to the title bar with
> > the mouse (as it's above top of the screen), and I'm not coming up with
> > any other ways to reposition the window.
> > 
> > This is with 1.9.5 based on r13991 running under XDarwin on OS X 10.4. 
> > If the repeated appearance of off-screen windows should be filed as a
> > bug, I'd be happy to do that; for the moment, though, I'd be even
> > happier to get them on screen so I can use them.
> 
> I get this kind of problem a lot with Gnucash and just use the keyboard
> shortcut to maximize the window, which brings the entire window contents
> onto the screen. I don't know what the maximize key would be in the Window
> Manager for XDarwin, but I expect there is such a key.

On all Linux desktops I've ever used you can place the mouse pointer
anywhere within a window, hold down the ALT key then move the window
to where you want it by depressing the left mouse button and dragging.


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