Window may be restored off screen

[Tim Hoffmann]

I use a 2-monitor setup horizontal and vertical with bottom parts aligned: i.e. _| (lines indicate orientation, both 1920x1200)
As a result the desktop coordiantes (0,0) -> (720,1920) do not lie on any screen. This is not accounted for by Inkscape.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create and save a SVG
2. Close Inkscape
3. Change the window position in the SVG source to (0,0) -> (400,400)
4. Open the file by double-clicking
5. Inkscape opens the window at (0,0) -> (400,400) which is now completely off screen.

Observed with Inkscape 0.48 on Win7.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Related earlier report (possibly duplicate of …):
Bug #379463 "offscreen dialogs"
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/379463>

[jazzynico (jazzynico)]

Marking as duplicate of Bug #379463 "offscreen dialogs".
Don't hesitate to comment if you think it's a different issue.

[HonoredMule (honoredmule)]

I thought I was the only one who turned one monitor sideways. :P Not only does this affect me as well, it happens for almost every file I find and often when opening without a file as well - all regardless of window geometry settings.

(very tedious) WORKAROUND:
To recover such windows, right-click (or on vista/7/8, shift+right-click) on the taskbar entry for the window, select "Move," and press an arrow key. After doing that, move the mouse around and the titlebar will snap to your pointer. Left-click to drop.