[Desktop client] Can't bring back Riot window after monitor change

[element-hq]

[Desktop client] Can't bring back Riot window after monitor change

[turt2live]

This is a common problem in Windows that Riot can't really do much about. There are some tricks to getting the window back such as using the "Cascade windows" option or "moving" it. Some information is available here: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/

[adrian-007]

As a C++ developer working on Windows, I woudn't call it a common problem. Host window (in this case Electron) doesn't listen to system events and doesn't handle being off-screen very well. I got only a handful of applications that doesn't know how to get back to working display, most native Windows apps react to Win + left / right arrow.

Some time ago I've reported that Riot doesn't remember it's position on the screen between restarts and it was fixed by adding a setting that is saved every time Riot is closing with window last coordinates - and that's good. Bad thing is that Riot doesn't do sanity checks and even after restart it places itself outside of Virtual Desktop region, rendering it unable to get back to visible region (because it doesn't react to common tricks, like alt-tabbing, win+arrows, etc). I'll check provided tricks again tomorrow at work (at home I work on Fedora and I don't have multiple displays).

[adrian-007]

Okay, so as expected:

1. Cascading windows doesn't work
2. On Windows 10, you don't have such menu on taskbar items that would allow to move them

[turt2live]

I only say it's common because I've seen it happen to pretty much every application out there, alongside other people. If riot is able to actually fix it though, that'd be awesome.

[adrian-007]

If Electron doesn't listen to system events, then Riot can't do much about it (unless you can listen for it for yourself), but certainly it should be brought up with Electron folks.

[theoryshaw]

+1
Is there a work around for the time being?

[theoryshaw]

right click, and maximize...

[adrian-007]

@theoryshaw

right click, and maximize...

Have you reproduced this problem, tested the solution and you can confirm that it works?

[theoryshaw]

didn't go that deep. Just wanted to post a solution that helped me.

[adrian-007]

If you didn't reproduce it, how do you know that it would help?

[ostwilkens]

I experience this every time I dock or undock my laptop to my external screen.
Maximizing like @theoryshaw said is my current workaround.

[oskarakso]

right click, and maximize...

Works, I had the same problem after changing right monitor to left and moving them on windows screen settings.

[bradyt]

I don't see an Element window on macOS. Have tried uninstalling and reinstalling Element. Still no visible window.

[bradyt]

Ah, found it, used the "Show all windows", saw a ghost outline, noted that it was slightly below center, and used some special keybindings I have to move frames, I guess I had resized it to take up zero space at some point. Strange that a reinstall doesn't reset that.