Re: how to stop menu windows from moving around

Posted by Jon K Peck on
URL: http://spssx-discussion.165.s1.nabble.com/how-to-stop-menu-windows-from-moving-around-tp5728487p5728489.html

You can use Window > Reset Dialog Sizes and Positions to forget the saved locations of all the dialog boxes so that they will appear at a visible location when subsequently used.  Offscreen windows themselves, now position themselves on a visible screen, but I don't recall just which version that appeared in.


Jon Peck (no "h") aka Kim
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Date:        01/26/2015 11:45 AM
Subject:        [SPSSX-L] how to stop menu windows from moving around
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Hello,

I move my laptop between two workstations, both stations use dual monitors monitors but they are arranged differently. Work station A has a docking station with two full size external monitors connected to the dock (I do not use the laptop monitor, only hte two external monitors). Workstation B has one external monitor that is connects directly into laptop (I use external monitor and laptop monitor).

Here is the problem: After moving from one station to the other (it happens with both), I often cannot see/find a menu window. Apparently (I discovered this by accident), when a menu is opened SPSS somehow remembers the screen/monitor in which it opened. When I change workstations the menu window pops up, in a screen that I am not using, if that makes sense.

Example: I start at workstation B, use the frequencies procedure, the frequencies menu pops up in the laptop screen. I move to workstation A, open SPSS, click Analyze > Descriptive > Frequencies Now I cannot see the menu because it has popped up in the laptop screen which is currently not in use. So I cannot use it. This is becoming a big problem.

Is there a way I can confine the menu screens to a SPSS window? I have looked in options but cannot find anything.

Thanks,
John
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