I am running linux mint 16 with xfce. I don't know what exactly happend, but the workspace gets switched to another as the mouse moves through screen edge. This is quite annoying!
Is there any setting I can fix to restore to normal behavior?
Go to "Settings" then to "Window Manager Tweaks" then to "workspaces". Choose "Use the mouse wheel on the desktop to switch workspaces"
Open Settings Manager/Window Manager/Advanced and unselect Wrap workspaces when the pointer reaches the screen edge: with the mouse pointer.
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I'm using PyCharm with multiple monitors on Mac OSX (10.10.5), normally you can drag windows off to a separate monitor. In PyCharm that works, but they (and in particular the Run window) snap back to the main monitor.
I've only seen this on the latest PyCharm 5 CE though its possible older versions also had the problem. I've searched all the settings and searched online, but can't find a setting that makes the window stay where it was placed.
Right click on the tab and select View Mode as Window.
Then you can move the window to another monitor.
It's crappy behaviour from the best python IDE out there.
There is a OSX solution but i'm not sure if you will like it:
You can enable old style multiple screen support again in OSX by going to System Preferences, Mission Control and uncheck "Displays have separate spaces". Now your floating windows will not snap back and you can even extend your PyCharm main window over the screens.
The downside of this solution is that you'll have the OSX dock and main menu only on your main monitor. I hope Jetbrains will fix this behaviour soon.
Another way to achieve what you want is to open multiple instances of the project. When you try to open the project for the second time you can choose "open project in new window". You can drag the new window to the second screen; it won't snap back to your primary monitor.
For Ubuntu and Windows users landing up here:
Press Shift + F4 or
Right-click and select 'Move Tab to New Window'
Drag the newly created window to the next screen
The best option is to detach an editor window and drag it to your second monitor.
Sometimes when dragging a window around on the Windows 7 desktop, all of my other open windows will suddenly minimize. I can go to the task bar and reopen them, one by one, but is there a way to get them all back at once? And is there a way to turn off this annoying behaviour?
Thanks.
That will be Aero Shake.
You can shake the window that you were moving and your windows will be restored.
You can also disable Aero Shake, following instructions here:
Go to Run (Windows+R) and type gpedit.msc
Navigate to User configuration > Administratives Templates > Desktop
Search for "Turn off Aero Shake window minimizing mouse gesture" and enable the policy.
If you shake a window (left-right rapidly or another direction) then it minimizes all windows except that one. To get them back, shake the first window again.
This is what worked for me.
Open Windows Explorer.
Maximize and close it with Shift pressed.
Windows Explorer should open maximized.
the problem: I have to use win7 currently, but I want to use Umbrello UML. Now I have installed the KDE for Windows port and the tool is running. But if there high dialogs poping up or other windows that are not resizeable it could happen that I do not reach the bottom buttons because it is out of scree.
Even if I disabled the window snapping via mouse, I cannot move the window over the top border of the desktop to reach the bottom bar. It is always snapping back to the visible area.
Any ideas how to solve this problem?
Finally found a workaround: http://code.google.com/p/altdrag/ is working great. Now I am able to move the window like I want to.
I have no idea how he did it but on my dad's laptop, which is running Vista, there is a window at the top; you can only drag it down but not remove, minimize or maximize it as those options do not appear. I restarted but it's still there.
Here's a screenshot of what I mean:
How do I remove it? It used to be my laptop but I've never seen that when I used it.
It's a deskband. You can move it around with the little grippy thing on the left. You should be able to right click the Taskbar, select toolbars, and uncheck whichever one is that one.
I am using Visual Studio 2005 with Team Foundation Server.
When I right click a file under the source control and choose "compare" VS appears to freeze until I hit escape. My guess is that the window that is supposed to be popping up is somewhere I can't get to. I tried minimizing all the windows that I can and it is nowhere to be found.
Try the keyboard shortcut to get to the window's main menu () then hit 'M' for move and hit an arrow key to attach the window to the mouse - then at the next move of the mouse it should jump to it.
Experiment with a window you can see first.
i had the same problem when trying to check in to TFS - no dialog and ESC escape key undid the freeze.
I had recently, before the problem, changed my Laptop + Monitor configuration as follows:
from Primary screen being the laptop and secondary screen being the monitor
to primary screen being the monitor and secondary being laptop.
I got rid of my secondary screen and tried again. SUre enough the invisible dialog was no longer invisible.
I had to disable my Second Screen as well. Now the check-in screen where you can add a comment IS visible.