Child windows position out of screen, can't move them

[A. de la Pinsonnais]

OS is Windows Vista.

Inkscape version is Inkscape 0.47 r22583, built Nov 21 2009

I have a computer with 2 screens. First I use Inscape, main Inscape window on 1st screen, an I move child windows (ex : Export as bitmap, vectorization, etc...) to my other screen.

Then I close Inkscape, and for some reason, I need to change my screens configuration (secondary screen become main, orientation change from landscape to portrait, etc).

I open Inkscape again, but the main windows is out of screen. Right-click->Full Screen on task bar and it's OK. But not with child windows : they are out of screen and I have no possibility to move them... See screenshot of my 1st screen).

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Related to or duplicate of bug #379463 “offscreen dialogs”?

[A. de la Pinsonnais (amaury)]

Yes, it looks the same. Maybe my description and screenshot add some extra information, hope it can help.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Could you test with the current stable release too? [1] Inkscape 0.48 comes with a lot of updated libraries, as mentioned in bug #379463, though the code in Inkscape itself to store dialog positions between sessions hasn't changed much or at all since 0.47, afaik.

[1] <http://sourceforge.net/projects/inkscape/files/inkscape/0.48/>

[A. de la Pinsonnais (amaury)]

I just unistalled my 0.47 version, download the last stable one (Inkscape 0.48.0 r9654), and installed it.

I still reproduce the issue :(. But Windows built-in controls works : CTRL+Space drop a menu, where I can select "Move", and then with arrows keys, the window moves (I didn't try it in 0.47 version).

If you know this tip (but 99% of windows users don't), it's OK.

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Thank you for testing and reporting back. I will link your report as duplicate to bug #379463 to keep further discussion in one place and change its status to 'Confirmed'.
If you don't agree and think this was done in error, please add a comment here and revert the duplicate status.