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MercuryMover 2 - Even better window management
Authored by: DrMacMusic on Oct 07, '08 11:53:25AM

This does sound very useful. I wonder if it will help with an occasional but very annoying problem I have. I have a MacBook, and I use it at work with an extended display. There are some programs I run that, if last quit with a window on the extended-desktop, will the next time they are opened try to locate that window in the same display-space, even if it is no longer available. If I don't remember to bring all the windows back to the main desktop before closing the program, it can make the program impossible to use.

Someone posted an applescript solution to this problem on this forum, I believe, called "GatherWindows". This script forces all windows that a program is trying to display in non-existing regions of the extended desktop to display on the main desktop. The script works fine, but always takes a while for me to locate and run (I am sorry I can't find a link to the original post for this script, which means I have the original name wrong, or it was not on this forum).

Perhaps MercuryMover will have the ability to quickly relocate all of these "invisible" windows to the existing display space with a keyboard shortcut. I will check it out.

Thanks for the post



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