Re: Octave Gui, inaccessible editor with multiple monitors

[Torsten]

On 29.01.2016 23:20, PhilipNienhuis wrote:
> NJank wrote
>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 1:38 PM, Mike Miller <
> 
>> mtmiller@
> 
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 13:17:04 -0500, Nicholas Jankowski wrote:
>>>> Just ran into this last night. not sure if there's a good workaround:
>>>>
>>>> At work I run Octave on a laptop with a docking station and a 2-screen
>>>> setup.  Working yesterday, I had the main Octave GUI on the main screen
>>> and
>>>> the editor undocked over on the second monitor.  closed octave,
>>> undocked
>>>> the laptop, went home.
>>>>
>>>> Opened up Octave later with just the laptop screen, and couldn't find
>>> or
>>>> get to the editor window. I selected the Reset Default Window Layout
>>>> option, and the editor reappeared as a Tab behind the command window.
>>>> Undocking it again, it went back to the same unreachable off-screen
>>>> position. Came back into work again this morning, undock the editor,
>>>> grabbed it from the second screen and moved it back to the first one.
>>>>
>>>> can avoid it now, but is this an issue with the Octave GUI or just
>>>> unavoidable when shutting down/reopening with different monitor
>>>> configurations?
>>>
>>> Have you tried undocking the editor by dragging its title bar (the
>>> horizontal area labeled "Editor")? I can reproduce your scenario in
>>> Gnome by using the dock/undock icons (except that the editor is moved
>>> back to a primary desktop after I unplug the secondary monitor), but
>>> dragging the editor window by its title bar undocks it and lets the
>>> mouse place it anywhere.
>>>
>>> --
>>> mike
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, first point I left out, I'm running Windows 7.  So this could be
>> unique to how Windows handles things.
>>
>> In Windows, you cannot remove the editor from the main GUI by dragging.  I
>> think this was brought up in another thread. dragging will change it's
>> position in the main GUI window, but if you drag it outside of the main
>> window it just snaps back after releasing the mouse button. The only way
>> to
>> get it outside the main window is with the Undock Widget button.
> 
> Looks like your only option is to delete the qt-settings file in your
> %USERPROFILE%\.config directory.
> 
> I have a backup of that file from some working window layout with some
> undocked panes & my favorite settings.
> 
> Philip
> 

We could add menu entries for un-/docking the widgets apart from the
buttoms in their title bars. Then there is no need to reset the complete
window layout. Sure, a better way would be to detect whether a widget is
placed on a non-existing monitor but I am not sure if there are ways to
detect this.

Torsten