You are here

Remember the last screen location the Platform was open at

6 posts / 0 new
Last post
STovey
Offline
Last seen: 2 months 3 weeks ago
Joined: 2017-01-21 20:39
Remember the last screen location the Platform was open at

When I open portable apps, it starts at the top right corner of the monitor.
I then move it down to the bottom right location of the monitor.
Upon shutting down and restart, portable apps returns to the top right corner of the monitor.
This is a recent issue and did not exist prior to February 2024.
This appears to have started with portableApps 29.3
PortableApps 29.5
Windows 8.1 64bit
Single monitor

John T. Haller
John T. Haller's picture
Online
Last seen: 57 min 31 sec ago
AdminDeveloperModeratorTranslator
Joined: 2005-11-28 22:21
Fully Closing?

Are you closing the PA.c Platform when you're done using it to save the setting before shutting down Windows? It's working for me here with a single screen.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

erich.leisch
Offline
Last seen: 7 months 1 day ago
Joined: 2010-11-23 03:37
Remember the last screen location

I have the same problem. I usually have PA-menu in bottom left corner. After closing and re-opening menu, it always goes the middle of the left screen border. I have dual screen, with PA-menu on main screen (1920x1080). Second monitor is 1280x1024. What can I do?

Erich Leisch
Senior Software Engineer
FORTH, Institute of Computer Science
Heraklion, Crete, Greece

John T. Haller
John T. Haller's picture
Online
Last seen: 57 min 31 sec ago
AdminDeveloperModeratorTranslator
Joined: 2005-11-28 22:21
Working Here

I setup the same scenario and it worked here without issue. Where are you positioning the menu before you close it? After closing it, open up the PortableAppsMenu.ini file within X:\PortableApps\PortableApps.com\Data and check what the entries are for StartPositionHorizontal, StartPositionVertical, and LastMonitor-COMPUTERNAME.

Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!

STovey
Offline
Last seen: 2 months 3 weeks ago
Joined: 2017-01-21 20:39
Remember the last screen location

Just opened PortableApps menu and it started at the top.
I thought I had found a work around for this issue by setting the StartPositionHorizontal to Right and StartPositionVertical to Bottom, then setting the file permissions to read only so that portableApps could not change StartPositionVertical to Top which is what it has been doing.

But today, despite the settings, the Menu started at the top of the screen.

StartPositionHorizontal=Right
StartPositionVertical=Bottom
LastMonitor-COMPUTERNAME=0

UpdateInformer
Online
Last seen: 4 min 28 sec ago
Joined: 2013-07-15 09:27
on every app / windows settings?

will keep an eye on that (thread) as i want even to have remembered the last position by every used app.
hope you get a solution for that.

i help where i can! maybe you can help (me) too! see in my account under 'track' for my conservations/threads. be nice!
if you don't want to help, don't post crap!

Log in or register to post comments