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    What is the most difficult problem that you have fixed in linux? (lemmy.world)
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    [–] ccunix@lemmy.world 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    A couple of weeks ago I moved Firefox to one side. Window disappeared, but Firefox was still running "somewhere" on my desktop, but was not actually be rendered to the screen. Killing the process and relaunching just resulted in it be rendered to this weird black hole. Log out of gnome and log back in? Same! Reboot? Same!

    Ended up deleting it's config folder and re-attaching to Firefox sync in order to have it working again. No idea what went wrong, nor will I ever most likely.

    [–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    There really should be a hotkey for "move window to primary display" or somesuch. The worst is when just the top "cleat" of the window is inaccessible, making it impossible to simply move the window yourself.

    Alternately, a CLI tool to just trash a specific app's window settings, or a system control panel that lets you browse these settings, would be incredible.

    [–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

    In every GUI I've used, there are tiling or snapping hotkeys, something like Super + Arrow keys or something, that will usually put the window somewhere sane.

    [–] Willdrick@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

    Hold down meta and you can drag the window from anywhere (on gnome at least thats a default)

    [–] slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 2 points 7 months ago

    I feel like i had a disappearing window like that a lifetime ago and the fix was to change the resolution. I don't know if that uncovered the void to the right or forced the window to reassign itself to usable space. But it worked then. Hell, it could have been windows for all I recall.