OT: OSX Window Positioning

[David Bogie]

Just so you know, there’s an Apple OS forum here on the Cow.

But I’m afraid I don’t have a good answer for you. Whenever I open our network connections, command-k, the window is always conveniently centered in one of the monitors. Regardless of where I move it, it always opens in the center of one monitor the next time. I’ve never had it open spanning the displays nor have I ever had it open way off to one side. However, Finder windows sometimes forget where they’ve been, especially if you have changed your monitor arrangement or the size of the display. Let’s say you had your monitor set to display a larger area. Maybe that network window was in the center of a larger display? Do you have two displays? Try opening that preference panel and just make some adjustments. Open your network connection, move it. Change your monitor size or arrangement back to normal. Try your command-k again.

Sorry, best I can think of this early.

bogiesan

This is my standard sigfile so do not take it personally: “For crying out loud, read the freakin’ manual.”

[Rick Dolishny]

Thanks and your suggestions got me thinking, ultimately a solution!

I clicked the network share on the dock and moved the window to the centre of the screen.
I trashed the little network icon our IT guy created on the dock.
I dragged the correctly positioned window back onto the dock.

Voila! Next time it opened it opened exactly where I wanted.

And yes we were playing around with different dual displays until we settled on the one I have now. That must have been a part of the problem.

Thanks bogiesan for getting me thinking. And thanks, too, for the OSX COW suggestion.

– Rick