As far as it has happened to me the windows DO appear. It's just that they
are located almost outside the screen with only one pixel in width showing
in the screen. This of course assumes we are talking about floating
windows, I'm though not sure if that's the case for thunderbird mails.
To me this has occurred when I run a program in multiple monitors and
later switch to singe monitor mode. I guess the program remembers the
coordinates and places the window far to the edge which before would
have meant the other screen.
One simple solution is to drag the window into the screen, Mod4+mouse
drag, 1 pixel is enough for this to work(usually on the left edge of the
screen).
The other workaround is to select the window in the taskbar and make the
window fullscreen, Mod4+f, then use the window, or if fullscreen is
disabled (Mod4+f again) the window usually stays fully within the screen.
Thanks Peter, that's very helpful. I'll try it when it happens next.
Strangely enough after I enabled Xinerama the problem hasn't come back again.
I really miss the Windows Alt+Space menu at times like these - it's really
useful to be able to right-click on the taskbar button (or focus it and press
Alt+Space) to display a menu of actions - move, resize, close, etc. This
allows you to move windows back on the screen as you describe even if they're
not visible at all. As Awesome doesn't seem to have an equivalent for this
menu that I could find, I was a bit stuck!
Your suggestion of Mod4+f will work in a similar way to this, so I'll
definitely remember that for next time.
Thanks again,
Adam.
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