﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Ayende @ Rahien</title><link>http://ayende.com</link><description>Ayende @ Rahien</description><copyright>Copyright (C) Ayende Rahien  2004 - 2021 (c) 2026</copyright><ttl>60</ttl><item><title>Demid commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>To move a lost window back to the monitor without UltraMon and similar programs just right click on the program in the taskbar, use move command, move mouse back to the monitor and press left or right arrow in the keyboard. The window will jump under the cursor.
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment14</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment14</guid><pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:23:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pure Krome commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>For me .. i find that when i Remote Desktop from home to my work PC .. this happens a fair bit :( this is why i make sure i change all my settings/move windows to the primary monitory if i know i'm going to RD to my work machine.
  
  
For VS2010 (and i did this for VS2008) i have two window settings -&gt; one for single monitory and another for dual 22" monitors. This is because i'm switching so often between the two.
  
  
Thank gawd VS2010 now displays the window positions exactly right when i import the display windows .. in vs2008 it always skewed them off to by 100 px or something. so fraking annoying.
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment13</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment13</guid><pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:35:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Phil commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>The good thing is that since it is open source, you will not have to lose sleep fixing it. Plus, probably someone else may fix it for you. 
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment12</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment12</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:04:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dave H commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>Just my opinion here but I would put a bug like this pretty low on my priority list. As other people have said, lots of other apps have this issue so even if your app works fine, other apps will break anyway so the end user will have some tidying up to do.
  
  
You can also work around the problem to some extent as long as the app's still visible in the task bar: right click the task, select move, press a cursor key and wave your mouse around and the window will come back into the visible area.
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment11</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment11</guid><pubDate>Wed, 15 Sep 2010 01:57:43 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>NC commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>Never have an issue with losing windows.
  
  
With Ultramon, using Windows 7. On the main taskbar, you hover over the taskbar item to bring up the preview, right click the preview and click "Move to other monitor".
  
  
Problem solved.
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment10</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment10</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:58:04 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>DVins commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>This issue drives me crazy with other applications when I undock my laptop...
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment9</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment9</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:56:01 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Rik Hemsley commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>TBH this is exactly the sort of thing that developers are supposed to think about and cater for before it happens. Windows is perfectly capable of ensuring that your app is visible when it starts, and you _know_ that the desktop could be spread over multiple screens - and that the configuration may change.
  
  
To blithely override the default positioning while ignoring the obvious issues involved - well, I can only say I would be disappointed if any of our developers did the same.
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment8</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment8</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:23:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Stendahl commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>This is a problem with many windows apps. There must be some tool out there that can bring lost windows onto the screen. For your app I'd suggest a "Forget window positiions" menu action.
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment7</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment7</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 14:22:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Alex Simkin commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>@John Chapman and Wyatt Barnett
  
  
With setup like this users so used to everything not working correctly that NHProf won't make their lives any different.
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment6</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment6</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 13:38:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wyatt Barnett commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>If it makes you feel any better, lots of programs by big publishers also fail when you take away monitors. 
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment5</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment5</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:38:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>John Chapman commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>I doubt you'll run into this with your users, but Windows will also allow non-rectangular desktops.  I have seen users that have 4 monitors mounted as a rectangle with 2 on the bottom and 2 on top and then 2 more monitors one on each side.
  
  
Perhaps it's flexibility like that which makes it more complicated than 2 numbers?  
  
  
Also when 2 monitors do not share the same resolution you also have the flexibility of placement for the monitors.  Is the smaller monitor in the middle, bottom, top?
  
  
These configurations make it seem less than trivial.
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment4</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment4</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:31:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Dave commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>You should also check the weight and width of your windows and check if they still fit. If the desktop is accessed using RDP the desktop dimensions could also change. 
  
  
In our office dual 22" screens are used, but some employees use 17" laptops to work on the road. Nobody said development was easy..
  
  
  
</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment3</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment3</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:33:06 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Domas commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>Have you checked StackOverflow? I think you can find answer in 
[stackoverflow.com/.../restoring-window-size-pos...](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/937298/restoring-window-size-position-with-multiple-monitors)</description><link>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment2</link><guid>http://ayende.com/4629/it-ain-t-no-simple-feature-mister#comment2</guid><pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 10:28:53 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Filip Navara commented on It ain’t no simple feature, mister</title><description>Ah, reinventing the Win32 wheel - Get/SetWindowPlacement - is it not available in some form in WPF?
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