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Changing from multiple to single monitor window positioning

Changing from multiple to single monitor window positioning

This should be simple to add.  Either a menu option to set window position back to default or perform a check to see if a window is positioned outside the usable space.  The issue can be seen if the Parameters window is positioned on a secondary monitor then reopen Fusion when the secondary monitor is not available. My specific scenario is using a laptop during the day with two external monitors then in the evening launching Fusion with only the laptop display.  Parameter window is not available with no way to get to it.

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petermtaylor
Enthusiast

God this is annoying!

My case if similar to @Anonymous . I use two monitors at my desk, but when i take my machine to the CNC mill, it's just a laptop with one screen. If i want to change properties for an operation, i can't if the previous location for the menu was on screen two. Means i have to go back to my desk and redock the computer to move floating menus back onto the primary screen, undock, and move back to the mill. Crazy!

 

Ideally, the menus would snap back to screen 1 if there is no screen two, but remember their locations and restart on screen 2 when it's available again. 

 

 

Anonymous
Not applicable
I haven't tried this yet specifically with Fusion but for a windows 10
machine try CTRL+Winkey+P. Should give you the popup in Win10 to
select single screen. I found all other windows relocate to my single
screen correctly.
petermtaylor
Enthusiast

Great tip!

I was expecting there'd be a windows/os based solution for this. I'm on win7, and this tip works there too. 

 

However, Fusion should still handle for this case. It shouldn't be up to the user to know about this (relatively esoteric) shortcut to bring back functionality. 

 

Thanks for the tip though, i'll be using that until Fusion fixes this issue. 

Anonymous
Not applicable
I feel the same way but I think it may be a windows issue. Windows
should be resetting to single screen when the other screens are no
longer available. Anyway, at least there is a work around.

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