Visor window drops to bottom after having been unplugged from external monitor

Hi :)

I've been experiencing this bug with iTerm2. It's a bit lengthy to explain.

I have my Air hooked up to an Apple display at work. the Apple display is configured as my primary monitor, and the Air's display as secondary. I've configured iTerm's hotkey window to reveal itself on the secondary display, so that I can work with Sublime in fullscreen on the primary display.

This works great for the duration of the work day. In the afternoon, I unplug the laptop and clamshell it, taking it home with me. At home, untethered, I can continue my work, and iTerm will reveal itself as expected (though there is now no secondary display, so it reveals the hotkey visor on the primary display).

Next day, back at work, I plug my Air back in. At this point, iTerm will now reveal its hotkey window on the primary display, the Apple display. That's sort of a (minor) bug, I guess, but here's the kicker: The visor reveals itself at the top, as usual, but if I open another tab in the visor, then Ctrl+D it to exit, iTerm will immediately shift the visor to the bottom of the Apple display, and it'll stay there until I quit and restart iTerm.

It's cool that iTerm doesn't break when I unplug the Apple display, and the "Screen 2" that I've configured it to use for the hotkey window disappears. It'd be even cooler if it detected also when "Screen 2" reappears and then reveal itself there :)

Cheers, Daniel

BTW: I'm using Build 2.9.20150626

Actually, the "until I quit and restart iTerm" part is wrong. Closing all tabs is enough. After that, bringing up the hotkey window will place it at the top, and on the secondary display as configured.

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If you can get it to reproduce, a debug log would be very helpful.

Hi George :)

I did the steps to reproduce the bug while logging. I echoed out what I did along the way — I would think that'll be helpful, if not I can create another one where I don't :)

Btw, I've noticed that with this version I can no longer open up an iTerm window from Finder (with XtraFinder). If this isn't a known issue, I can open up a new ticket.

Cheers :)

debuglog.txt.bz2

Hi Daniel. Thanks for the debug log. I will take a look as soon as I'm able (the new beta has generated a lot of issues so there is a bit of a queue). As for XtraFinder, they will need to update their code for the new iTerm2 beta. Applescript has changed and is not backward compatible. Docs are here: https://iterm2.com/applescript.html. I suggest reaching out to them and letting them know.

Cool! Thanks a lot :) I'll talk to XtraFinder about the other issue.

Cheers!

Both issues should be fixed in commit 7aa0ce97.

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