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Bug 359047

Summary: E4 can start on a non-existant monitor making it impossible to work
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Dean Roberts <dean.t.roberts>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 4.2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
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Description Dean Roberts CLA 2011-09-27 08:20:51 EDT 
This is a multi-monitor bug.

I believe these are the steps.  I don't have my 2nd monitor right now so I can not verify but.

1) Open E4 and move it to the 2nd monitor
2) Close and save E4
3) Remove 2nd monitor
4) Start E4

Note that you can see it open towards the non-existant monitor.  You get the icon on the task bar and you know the app is visible on the monitor that you do do not have.

This is NOT simply the cases that the monitor is off/disconnected and Windows thinks it is still there.  Windows knows there is only one monitor currently in use.

This is not an uncommon scenerio.  This would happen for any laptop user that has a docking station with multiple monitors connected.

In the docking station, 2 monitors.  Out of the docking station, 1 monitor.

I almost want to make severity Critical ...  I think the only way I can recover from this is to get a 2nd monitor attached now.  In XP there where keyboard keys where you could force the window to maximize and move it ... I can't seem to figure that out in 7.
Comment 1 Remy Suen CLA 2011-09-27 08:22:35 EDT 
You could probably workaround the problem by deleting your deltas file.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 358627 ***