modal annoyance

[gusl]

At home, I use a laptop with an external monitor. A very common annoyance I have with Firefox is that when I unplug my machine, and try to add an attachment on GMail, the modal dialog pops up, but it's completely unreachable and now so is the rest of Firefox. I figured out that I can get back to Firefox by hitting ESC... but still, I can't add attachments until I plug into an external monitor again. (Restarting Firefox doesn't help)

A tangentially related annoyance, ubiquitous in Windows applications, is that they don't have a text interface for entering paths... so even when I have the path in the copy/paste buffer, I need to go click-click-click...

Comments

[stepleton.livejournal.com]

Does it not work to minimize and then restore the dialog? (Just a guess---I don't use windows. Mathematica on the Mac breaks the same way occasionally, and this fixes it.)

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

The only way I know of minimizing the dialog is Windows-M, which minimizes everything.

There's no way to restore because the dialog doesn't have its own tab.
But even if I could restore it, by Windows convention, it would go back to the same inaccessible place.

[jcreed.livejournal.com]

The key-sequence Windows-Space X (which amounts to "Maximize") sometimes works for me in such situations

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

not for me.

[serapio.livejournal.com]

There's no key command for switching between dual and single monitor modes? In windows, mine senses it automatically, but in linux I often have to manually switch.

[gustavolacerda.livejournal.com]

not AFAIK.