v8.7 search results window not showing

Mark Olson

Could you expand on how to replicate this bug? For example, provide a workflow that leads to this bug appearing, and tell us if there was an older version of Notepad++ that does not have this problem. You may also wish to insert ?->Debug Info... into your response, to give us a better understanding of your setup.

mkupper

@joecar-777 You did not say how you “do a search” but Notepad++ has a feature where if you use a keyboard shortcut to bring up the search dialog window twice in a row then it will center and resize the Find window or dialog box so that it’s visible. This is mainly useful when the window or dialog box has been dragged off the screen.

For example, Ctrl+F Ctrl+F will first open the Find window and the second Ctrl+F will center and resize it to the default location for the window. This also works for Ctrl+H Ctrl+H for Replace, Ctrl+Shift+F Ctrl+Shift+F for Find in Files, and Ctrl+M Ctrl+M for Mark.

PeterJones

@mkupper,

This is mainly useful when the window or dialog box

As @joecar-777 said, it was the Search Results window (the extra panel or window from Find All In Current Document and similar Find-in-Files/F-i-Projects actions) that isn’t showing up, not the Find dialog that isn’t showing up.

As @xomx stated in this discussion, there seem to be a lot of Search Results (via Find All and similar interfaces)-related issues in 8.7.

So the more interesting question is whether @joecar-777 has one or more HiDPI monitors – are you using one monitor, or more than one? If just one, is it “high DPI” or not? And if multi-monitors, are the monitors all the same DPI density, or is there a mix of DPI and/or screen resolutions involved?

Jairo Florez

@joecar-777 go to C:\Users<YourUsername>\AppData\Roaming\Notepad++
Rename config.xml to config_backup.xml and restart Notepad++.

And that did the trick!

PeterJones

Readers of this discussion:

Deleting the whole file also eliminates all your Settings > Preferences choices, so don’t do that if you’ve customized Notepad++ preferences.

Instead, use a more targeted version where you exit Notepad++, edit %AppData%\Notepad++\config.xml, and delete the group of lines I showed in this post in another discussion, save, then restart Notepad++. (You cannot edit config.xml inside Notepad++, because it changes it when it exits, so your change would be lost.)

update: BTW: this reset procedure was described in our FAQ more than a year ago.

joecar-777

Thanks to all who have commented :)

I simply do a Search…

i.e. Search -> Find and fill in the Find What text and click Find All in Current Document or Find All in All Opened Documents… the search results window is not showing up.

I have multiple instances of Notepad++ open…
and today, quite by accident, I discovered the following:
the search results window shows up for the first and last instances of Notepad++ but not for the other instances.

:)

joecar-777

I am using a laptop with one monitor…

altho, on occasion I connect two identical flat panel monitors in my cube at work, not sure what kind they are since I mostly work remote.

joecar-777

@PeterJones

delete the whole <GUIConfig name=“DockingManager” …>…</GUIConfig> section

I will try your suggestion, thanks.

joecar-777

@PeterJones

delete the whole <GUIConfig name=“DockingManager” …>…</GUIConfig> section

I tried this and it worked, the search results window now shows up AND the status bar now appears normal (i.e. not cropped).

PeterJones

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This issue has come up multiple times. To keep the discussion in one place, please read the v8.7 Search Results section of the missing-panel FAQ, and then continue any discussion in the v8.7 Search Results Missing topic.