Windows opening half off screen - they are not accessible

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 9 Aug 2017 11:17:29 -0500, Wade Smart wrote:
>This morning after starting my laptop I opened gedit and
>it opened half off screen. I opened Chrome to get to my
>email and it opened half off screen. I cant click on them
>to move them back onto screen. I was able to open firefox
>and it opened in the middle of the screen. Ive had no
>external monitors connected or change in display. How can
>I move them back?

Hi,

you neither mentioned the used window manager and/or desktop
environment, nor the release of Ubuntu you are using. If you at least
would mention the release, we could guess that you are using the
release's default environment.

I'm an openbox user. Openbox allows to move windows, if the mouse
pointer is somewhere over the window and you push the Alt-key and keep
the left mouse key pushed.

If such a feature shouldn't be supported by your window manager/desktop
environment , perhaps maximising the window by a keystroke does the
trick.

Are you using Unity?

Regarding
https://askubuntu.com/questions/28086/what-are-unitys-keyboard-and-mouse-shortcuts :

"[snip]

Window Management

[snip]

    Ctrl + Super + ↑ - Maximize the current window
    Ctrl + Super + ↓ - Restore/Minimize the current window (seems to be
    buggy at the moment)
    Ctrl + Super + ← - Maximize current window to the left
    Ctrl + Super + → - Maximize current window to the right

Window Placement

If you cycle through the same key Unity will cycle through different
placement widths, so experiment by hitting the numkey multiple times,
for example Ctrl + Alt + numpad 5 + 5 + 5:

    Ctrl-Alt + Numpad 7 - Place window in top left corner of screen.
    Ctrl-Alt + Numpad 8 - Place window in top half of screen.
    Ctrl-Alt + Numpad 9 - Place window in top right corner of screen.
    Ctrl-Alt + Numpad 5 - Center/Maximize the window in the middle of
    the screen. In 12.04 this toggles between maximize and restore state
    Ctrl-Alt + Numpad 1 - Place window in the bottom left corner of the
    screen.
    Ctrl-Alt + Numpad 2 - Place window in the bottom half of the screen.
    Ctrl-Alt + Numpad 3 - Place window in the bottom right corner of
    the screen.
    Ctrl-Alt + Numpad 0 - Minimize the current window (Ubuntu 12.04.1).

[snip]"

I don't know what window managers are used for Unity or Gnome by
default Ubuntu installs, you could google it and then search for window
management keystrokes. It also would be possible to use the command
line. Apropos command line, one of the programs to handle windows by
command line also allows to determine what window manager is used, run

  wmctrl -m

To get info about your Ubuntu release, run

  lsb_release -a

Regards,
Ralf