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    • Jörg HohwillerJ
      Jörg Hohwiller
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      I really love notepad++. Thanks for making this great tool that boosts productivity of developers and others :)

      I am working with multiple screens and find it very confusing and unintuitive that if I hit [ctrl][f] or similar shortcuts or trigger features that open a popup that at first I think that it did not work and then later discover that the popup appeared on a different screen (and due its transparency is also not very visible).

      You do not owe me anything but maybe you could consider to open the popup on the same screen instead of the last x/y position if that also makes sense for you.

      Thanks for taking care
      Jörg

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      • PeterJonesP
        PeterJones @Jörg Hohwiller
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        @Jörg-Hohwiller said in Open popup on same screen:

        You do not owe me anything but maybe you could consider to open the popup on the same screen instead of the last x/y position if that also makes sense for you.

        I am just a user, not the developer, but I can say that it doesn’t make sense to everyone, because lots of people want it on a separate monitor (so the editor is on monitor1 and the find dialog is always open on monitor2, out of the way of typing). Different people have different use cases.

        That said, the developer was not deaf to such requests: instead of that, he implemented that if you hit Ctrl+F a second time, it will move the find window from wherever it was to the center of Notepad++'s current monitor. So if you find that your first Ctrl+F doesn’t seem to have pulled up the dialog on the monitor you want, just hit it a second time, and it will center itself.

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        • xomxX
          xomx
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          There are already such requests on the project GitHub, e.g. #15634 .

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          • Jörg HohwillerJ
            Jörg Hohwiller
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            @PeterJones said in Open popup on same screen:

            he implemented that if you hit Ctrl+F a second time, it will move the find window from wherever it was to the center of Notepad++'s current monitor.

            Oh, awesome. Thank you for this great hint.
            That is perfectly solving my problem.
            I am fully happy with this behaviour and can see that other users have different expectations than I have.

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