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Window is offscreen, won't come back on monitor

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Description

Had the new github desktop open, unplugged a monitor at some point and it must have been open on that one. Now when I try to open the window, it seems to open off-screen. Now i can’t get it back onto any of my other monitors (tried windows key + arrow keys, shift right clicking the icon on the taskbar doesn’t show the “move” option. Tried uninstalling and re-installing, still happens). I think the main problem here is the shift+right click on the icon doesn’t bring up any options.

Version

GitHub Desktop version: 1.0.1

OS version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce

Have 2 1440p monitors connected
unplug one, plug in a 1080p monitor NOTE: both of these steps i’m pretty sure was the initial issue, though I can’t try again since I can’t get the window to come back.
Github desktop is now “off the screen” (this isn’t abnormal for windows).
try all “window moving” tricks on windows (cascade, alt+tab, windows key+arrow keys) None work.
Try shift+right clicking the icon to “move”, notice the windows dropdown doesn’t appear (also doesn’t show up on co-workers “working” github window).
Uninstall/re-install
Problem persists.
NOTE: Old version of Github was installed (and working) this whole time.

Expected behavior: Window should open and be visible when I click the icon.

Actual behavior: Window seems to appear off-screen, but I can’t use any of the windows troubleshooting methods to get it back on-screen

Reproduces how often: Once, since I can’t get the window to show up on the screen even after uninstall/restart/

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Additional Information

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 6 years ago
Comments:24 (2 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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aleccaputocommented, Feb 2, 2019

Well, fixed my own issue.

Hit Alt+space to bring up the menu I couldn’t with shift+right click.
Press ‘M’ to make it move
Hit one of the arrow keys
now moving your mouse will have the window attached to it. Move it wherever until it shows up.

Still strange that Uninstalling the program and reinstalling didn’t default it to opening on one of my two active monitors. Not sure if this is just a Windows bug or a GitHub bug…will wait to close issue.

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NassirAlawarcommented, Sep 28, 2017

Alt+M Did not work for me. Solved by going into %APPDATA%\GitHub Desktop\window-state.json and changing the window position.