Cannot move ide 2.3.2 sketch window between monitors on win10

Software IDE 2.x
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I click on the top dark area and try and drag it from my monitor 1 to monitor 2 and nothing happens ...it will not move....I can minimize or maximize but no moving.... that can't really be how its supposed to work, right?

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Some points

  1. Is your IDE window maximised at the time that you try to move it; it might have an influence.
  2. Does it work with other applications?
  3. If you use the <alt><space> key combination to invoke the window's context menu and select move, can you move it using mouse or cursor keys?
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i guess im an idiot..i was trying to move the window holding the dark green.... not the white above it....THAT worked fine..sorry to waste your time.

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It's always better to refer by "things" by their name instead of colour

  • title bar
  • menu bar
  • icon bar
  • editor pane / window
  • output pane / window

It will always prevent confusion.

Anyway, glad it's solved. You can mark the topic as solved by clicking the little check mark under the most useful reply (yours in this case).

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well i guess I wasnt quite so crazy....see pic ...there is no title bar ...no way to exit gui

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There is a known issue in IDE 2.x where the title bar disappears. I've seen one report about it for Linux before, most are for Windows.

<alt><F4> should still allow you to close the application as far as I remember.

See A setting has changed - #4 by ptillisch for some details.

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thanks for the quick response ...why was that issue closed it if wasn't fixed?
this has been going on a pretty long time : (

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Yes. I still get that "no menu bar" problem occasionally. Usually after I "Menu/Quit" with more then one window open.

Restarting the IDE, sometimes more than once, restores it.

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What do you mean by "issue"?

Normally in this context the term "issue" is used to refer to an issue in the issue tracker of a GitHub repository. However, I didn't find any GitHub issues referenced in this topic or in the A setting has changed topic so maybe you mean something different?

I do see a tangential reference to a pull request in the other topic, but that pull request was merged rather than closed so I don't imagine you were referring to that.

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@ptillisch I think @tjodork is referring to the topic on the forum that I linked.

@tjodork,
Please understand that the forum is not a bug tracker but a support forum. The forum closes topics automatically after 6 months.
You can report bugs / issues on Issues · arduino/arduino-ide · GitHub. The likely reason why this issue is not reported is that there doesn't seem to be a consistent way to reproduce it.

If you can consistently reproduce the behaviour (meaning that you know the steps that you took to get the IDE in the problematic state and each time that you do those steps the problematic state happens), the official way to report it is through github where the developers hang around.

You can also report it here on the forum, if somebody can reproduce the issue with your steps they might open an issue on github.

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thanks for explaining