How to force off-screen windows back on-screen in MacOS

Jamie Carter
2 min readOct 30, 2023

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Recently, I had a weird problem where I could see a window when using the ‘desktop window viewer’ on the Mac but when I clicked on the window it disappeared off the screen! Minimising all my windows didn’t help me locate it.

This occurred after using the fullscreen option on a secondary monitor, then disconnecting from the monitor and then later reconnecting to the…

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Jamie Carter

Product designer, frontend developer and pharmacist. Passionate about Design, UX, CSS (Tailwind), DataVis and AstroJS. Twitter: @jamiecarter7. Work: simple.org