alt Hacker News> Sometimes apps would work fine until they opened a modal that was just a bit too tall, and you had to pray that Enter or Escape did something reasonable.
Do you mean that the titlebar would be off screen so you couldn't move/close the window?
On the Xfce desktop at least there's a nice shortcut, alt+drag with left mouse button to move any window, and alt+drag with right mouse button to resize it. That's honestly the Linux thing I miss most when using any other OS.
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littlecranky67 • today at 7:34 AM
I use bettertouchtool on macos to replicate exactly that behavior (and many more).
applfanboysbgon • today at 7:48 AM
Windows also has shortcuts to retrieve off-screen windows, but it's more difficult to remember so I have to google it every time this situation comes up.
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> Do you mean that the titlebar would be off screen so you couldn't move/close the window?
Not just the title bar, but often also e.g. half of the settings and the Cancel/Save/Ok buttons.
Basically the screen was 600 pixels in height, but the modal was designed after 2005 so it was 768 pixels tall, and you would get a cropped modal missing maybe 10% top and 10% bottom pixels that you couldn't interact with via mouse, and you couldn't resize nor move (either because it was fixed size, or because all corners that would allow you to do so were off-screen).