[aritwik]

Guys,

I am trying to resize my window. I have a 13.3 inch with a 1280 vs 800 lcd setting. But a program currently is below my viewable screen. Stuck there. So I cant even resize by pulling it up. Can you please tell me what I can do.

When I hit F10 it brings the window up but only for selection purpose. I'm stuck and I am unable to resize this pane.

Also is there any way to get rid of the top menu bar so that I can have more screen space. Thanks for your help.

[Laurence]

Click the green button in the upper left corner of the window. This should resize the window to fit on screen. Then grab the lower right corner and manually resize it. If that doesn't work then the application is using some non-standard windowing routines. If this is the case, quit the app and delete the preferences for the app... This will be a file (probably a .plist, but maybe not) or folder in ~/Library/Preferences.

If that doesn't work, delete anything to do with this application from ~/Library/Application Support.

If that doesn't work then delete the app and send an email to the coders that they need to resolve some bugs in their code before you will be able to continue using their software. ???

[C.A.T.S. CEO]

Originally Posted by aritwik 

Also is there any way to get rid of the top menu bar so that I can have more screen space. Thanks for your help.

No. There might be apps out there that can do this but I don't know about any.

[TETENAL]

Go to System Preferences->Displays and change the display resolution to something else. The window should then jump back into view and you can switch back to your regular display resolution.

[monkeybrain]

I'm interested how it got down there. I didn't think you could drag a window completely off-screen.

[kick52]

you could just log out.. or if it is work that needs saving you could just save it via the menubar, and quit the app and open it again

[aritwik]

sorry guys none of this worked.

Unsure as to what happened to cause it to go down below the viewing 'deck'. Very disappointed to say least with both my application and the MAC OS that it does not allow for resizing from the top as well like Windows.

I am thinking of getting MenuFela - any tips as to how useful this might be when removing the top menubar?

Thanks

[analogika]

I've seen a completely botched scanner software version do this once. Removing it and installing an updated version fixed it.

You can't remove the top menu bar, and above all, you don't WANT to. Every program is controlled primarily from the menu bar.

[Mithras]

Yes, Menufela make the top menubar slide away. I love it.
Also, this nifty prefpane: MondoMouse gives you key combos for moving and resizing windows, from any point on the window. It would certainly help your wandering window.

[real]

Remember you are going to have to relearn some stuff in OS X. You have to retrain your hands to Command instead of Control and some other stuff. I would try to get used to it before installing haxies to make OS X do the things you liked in Windows. Thats just my 2 cents


real

[Hal Itosis]

Sometimes, we can minimize the window to the Dock [by typing command-M].
Then -- if the application is smart enough -- when we click the window icon in
the Dock... it will expand to some location *below* the menubar.

[kick52]

Originally Posted by Hal Itosis 

Sometimes, we can minimize the window to the Dock [by typing command-M].
Then -- if the application is smart enough -- when we click the window icon in
the Dock... it will expand to some location *below* the menubar.

what you can do is minimize it, type in the terminal "killall Dock" (i think) without pressing enter.

then hold shift while clicking on the window in the dock. when it is popping out of the dock in slo-mo, go back to the terminal and press enter. you should be able to move the app round while it is frozen, all twisted and stuff. then move that to the right place, and type the same thing in the terminal, and press enter. done.