So far – any attempt at resizing just resizes the screen icons – not the desklets or the other sticky notes.Īs to the mouse – I don’t use the touch pad, but somehow I must trigger something since every once in a while the cursor will turn into the grab had and drag things around – that’s what happened with that note. I just seems if I could somehow resize my desktop so that I could see more of it – I might be able to see part of that note and get it back. I did look at the option for multiple screens, but I don’t see it on any of those. If I could just get a corner of it, I could use your command to drag it back, but right now – it isn’t visible. The problem is for that Sticky Note – I can’t see it – it seems to me that it was “thrown” off the visible screen and I can’t see it at all now. I did try the Alt+F7 command and it works as you said for windows that I can see. However this would mean you’d need to use the buttons above or below the touch pad for left-click and right-click, which I believe most (if not all) ThinkPads have. If you can stand it, you might turn off “Tap to click” in Mouse and Touchpad settings, to see if that helps. I didn’t see a setting in Mint to override something like that, but I also don’t have a ThinkPad and my old notebook touch pad doesn’t do anything like that. Once you’ve got it back on the screen, either single-click or hit Enter to confirm the new position.Īs for the mouse being “grabby”: Are you using the touch pad? If so, you might be sometimes accidentally triggering a built-in gesture function. Or you can use the arrow keys to slowly move it where you want. Once you’ve got the hand pointer, moving your mouse should cause the window to jump to it. If the window is not active and the mouse pointer does not change to a hand, you may be able to select that window using the bottom panel button. The mouse pointer will become a hand to show you that you can move the currently active window. Try using the default keyboard shortcut for moving windows: Alt+ F7. So, I’m hoping that someone might have an idea on how I can find it, and also any ideas as to how to make the mouse less grabby so this doesn’t happen again. I also poked around in the trash and in the desktop menu, but it isn’t there either. I also restarted, thinking maybe that would put back the original desktop view – no luck there. I’ve tried to adjust the screen size thinking I could see that note and drag it back, but that wasn’t successful – I don’t think I am doing it right. I am guessing that it somehow is beyond the visible portion of the screen, and I can’t figure out how to get it back. Last night it snagged one of my Sticky Notes – part of it was sticking out under another window and the next thing I knew, due to my inadvertent mouse movement, it dragged it to the edge of the screen – and it disappeared. Occasionally my mouse gets “grabby” and will snag onto icons or windows and will drag them around before it lets go. It runs great – but I have a weird issue concerning the Sticky Note applet and a note that is “lost” beyond the visible screen. I am running Linux Mint 19.1 from an external USB SSD drive, on a Lenovo Thinkpad. OK – here is an oddball problem that I am hoping you Linux gurus might be able to help me with.
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