I just found the right keystroke in Ubuntu - Alt+F7 will grab the
window that is currently in focus and then you can use the arrow keys
to move it.
You can move dialogs off the screen in any program, but for some
reason it just seems easier in to do in BE. Dan's right restarting BE
should be made to fix any lost dialogs.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:51 PM, Dan Dennison <address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
In Windows, you can alt-spacebar and select Move, and then arrow
key down the window.
I think this is more of a window manager issue than anything. The
only BE bug there may be here is saving the obscured window
position and then restoring it on application restart.
dan :)
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Oreo Warpok
<address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
Please, please, I really hope someone will write the patch
suggested by Teus. It would be best if BE's windows acted like
the windows in all other programs, in the ways in which they
can be moved, resized, and alternatively given focus when
there is overlap. I fear that this one fault has given many
people who try the program the unfortunate impression that BE
is a quirky, immature program.
Phil
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Paul-Jennifer_Schaefer
<address@hidden
<mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
Hi all,
When I had the same problem some months ago (in an
installation using Bibledit for Linux in Xubuntu--part of
SIL's Low Power Computing initiative called BALSA),
somebody suggested using the ALT key. But in that
version/system, this does not grab the active window and
move it--it rather grabs the whole main Bibledit window,
which doesn't do any good. I tried just now (on the same
system) the Alt F3 plus M (in various configurations) but
none of this worked either.
A fellow user suggested the solution of editing the
configuration file (which I sent separately), but Teus's
solution of Control-M to close the window, and then reopen
it; this works nicely (in my version at least) and is
simpler than editing the configuration file and has the
great advantage can be implemented by a local typist.
Paul
On 6/24/2011 10:56 AM, Birch Champeon wrote:
Are you running in windows? If so you can just right
click the window's button on the taskbar, choose move and
then use the arrow keys and/or the mouse to bring it back
on screen. Press enter to set the position.
If you are in ubuntu (and perhaps other flavors) and if
you can see any part of the window then hold the ALT key
and click inside the window that you can see. Then you
can drag the window anywhere. If you can't see the
window at all then click then make sure that is the
active window in the taskbar, press Alt+F3 then M, then
use the arrow keys to move it.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Tim Beckendorf
<address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
Greetings,
Today one of our translators moved one of his windows
up beyond the menu bar and we weren't able to find a
way to be able to grab it and move it back down
again. It sounds like a really silly problem now that
I write this but not having control over the window
was really bothersome.
Thanks for any help,
Tim
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