Re:The Secret Button
by HCIdivision17 on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:49AM
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It's gotten more interesting in Windows 10. With a hi-res surface, scaling often plonks screens in confusing and arbitrary places when docking/undocking. My method is now something like "Alt+Space, M, Hold Left for a few seconds, Hold Up for a few seconds, Hold right for twice as long as Left, Hold Down for twice as long as Up, etc". And it won't work at all on Java sub-windows, who just scale and move any which way. And hitting Win-Left or Win-Right may not even snap the window to a viewport, meaning the secret button nor the red X are at a window extreme.
It's certainly added a fun little extra layer of puzzle to my life. I bet this is how Catherine felt about Atrus' door puzzle locks as she wandered Myst Island.
Seriously? Undock leaves windows offscreen? Well, 10 < 95, I guess.
I do alt+space, m, left arrow and then move my mouse - window jumps to the mouse. Some arcane stuff to recover your window...
Win+left/right arrow also works for this since Windows 7
Re:The Secret Button
by expiredtofu on Thursday August 18, 2016 @10:36AM
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Not for subwindows, like dialog boxes that take focus on a program.
That's pretty much the only way to get offscreen windows back onto the desktop - "Alt+Space, M, Left arrow, Up arrow".