Re: Remembering window position

[Dan Frakes]

On 3/18/2009 12:01 PM, "Diane Ross" wrote:
>> When I open a new message window, Entourage insists on opening that window
>> on the display with the active ("frontmost") window, rather than my
>> "preferred" display. The problem with this is that whenever you Send &
>> Receive, the Progress window becomes the active window. So unless I remember
>> to *manually* make the main Entourage window active, opening a new message
>> opens that message in a tiny window on my secondary display.
> 
> Dan, I'm not seeing that behavior. Do you have spaces selected?

Wow, my fault here. In an apparent work-induced haze, I quickly sent a reply
that merged two separate issues into one without including complete details
for either ;-)  It's been one of those days.

(The other issue does indeed have to do with Entourage and the "active"
window being the Progress window after a Send & Receive. But that's for
another discussion.)

Let me start over:

I keep Entourage's main window on my main (menu-bar) display. I keep the
Progress window on my secondary display. When I'm done working in Entourage,
I generally close the main window (leaving the Progress window open on the
secondary display). If I switch back to Entourage without manually opening a
new main window, opening a new message results in that message window
opening on the *secondary* display. This is apparently because the secondary
display is the only one with an Entourage "window" open, even though it's
just the Progress window and I do all my Entourage work on the main display.

Also, the new message window that opens on my secondary display is unusable.
I get just a blank, white rectangle with no fields and no title bar.

With a bit of foresight, I can avoid this issue by always opening a new
Entourage main window before doing anything else. Where it bites me the most
often is when I click on an email link in another app, or use my browser's
"send link" command -- since I don't have a chance to first open a new main
window, the new message that's automatically opened appears on the secondary
display and is unusable.

(This sequence of events also causes Entourage to forget my preferred
message-window size.)

Now that description makes more sense, and I double-checked to make sure I'm
describing the right issue (and only one issue). Amazing how we can
completely amalgamate two separate things into one without even realizing
it...especially when tired ;-)


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