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I told them about the Zoom trick and they were quite happy with such an easy fix. The green resize buttons were inaccessible as well as the drag-to-resize portion of the window itself. I set a relative up with a dual-screen Mac setup recently and they love it, well, until they disconnected their MacBook Pro from the external display to find that a browser window sized at 1650×1080 was hanging way off the smaller resolution internal display running at 1280×800. “Help! There’s a window on my Mac that is too big to resize, it’s hanging off the screen! How do I fix this?” – This is the phone call that spawned this post.

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These tricks work to move off screen windows in all versions of MacOS and Mac OS X, regardless of what the Mac is running, whether it’s macOS Mojave, macOS High Sierra, MacOS Sierra, Mac OS X El Capitan, Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Snow Leopard, or whatever else. The Window menu is available in virtually every Mac OS X application and will always be accessible for resizing and ‘zooming’ windows to fit onto the available resolution. This is possible from the  Apple menu > System Preferences > Display section of settings. Finally, another option is to grab any portion of the window you can and hold down OPTION+SHIFT keys and drag, which will resize the window in any directionĪnother option is to temporarily switch the display resolution to smaller than you’d typically use, since that resizes onscreen windows to fit the new screen resolution.This will automatically resize the active window to fit on the screen. If you can’t access the green resize button because it is off screen, just click on the window you want resized and then navigate to the Window menu and pull down to ‘Zoom’.Of course, this is assuming you have access to the green zoom button. The first method you should try is to click the green button in the window titlebar, this will resize the window to fit to the available screen resolution.We’ll share three different tricks that work to bring an off screen window back on screen again on the Mac: $ pico /Applications/Dia.Resizing Windows That Are Off Screen in Mac OS X I opened the file /Applications/Dia.app/Contents/Resources/bin/dia using the terminal editor pico:

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To solve that I followed the hint on the GitHub page: How to install Dia on OSX (and have it run). But trying to restart after closing it did not work. I could use Dia after having started it the first time. The installation installs Dia as an ordinary app in the Applications folder. When the installer finishes, install XQuartz using brew: $ ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL )” /dev/null brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask 2> /dev/null Terminal command for installing Homebrew: Instead, the open-source XQuartz server should be used.

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This post just links to the page Install Dia on Mac OSX at that contains the Homebrew code for installing XQuartz and Dia on Mac OSX 10.14 (Mojave). 2) The X11 server is not included in Mac OS X versions 10.8 and higher. The official XQuartz recommendation is to use MacPorts for installing XQuartz.

But installing XQuartz on mac OSX 10.14 (Mojave) caused me some problems. At time of writing this (January 2020) the Dia version requires XQuartz. It is just at the level of complexity that I favour. Dia is a great app for creating flow charts and other diagrams.

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