I recently obtained a Lonovo Thinkpad and a docking station that allows multiple displays to be connected. The arrangement allows 3 larger screens to be open in addition to the laptop screen. I use them for 1. BK, 2. Ancestry.com, 3. working text file, and 4. other internet lookups (often find-a-grave). It has simplified my work considerably because it is easy to move data between screens. But there is one quirk that perhaps someone has seen and resolved. When BK opens, it starts on the laptop screen, but I usually move it to one of the larger screens and keep my text files on the laptop where I can more easily control font size. The problem comes when I shut down the computer, disconnect it from the docking station, and, at some later time, restart BK on the stand-alone laptop. What appears to happen is that BK tries to start on one of the disconnected monitors. What I see on the laptop screen are my usual icons (including the shortcut to BK) but BK itself is not visible. When I click again on the BK icon I get the message that BK is already running and sure enough, in the start tray it appears but with a blank screen and when I click on it again, nothing happens. If I reconnect the laptop to the docking station, all is well. But if I need to use BK away from the docking station for a while (maybe a couple research days away from home) I don't have this option. I have experimented with several ideas and the one that does seem to work is to delete the options file (bkoption.d7) and restart BK. This options file is then recreated and seems to reinitialize certain processes that allow BK to start on the default (and, at the time, the only) display monitor connected. Of course there are a few options that I need to reset to my preferences. Any ideas? Or a better work-around? Jim Ramaley Gettysburg, PA
Try this... Press and hold the left shift button while Right-Clicking the BK icon in the Windows Taskbar and select "Restore" Next, Press and hold the left shift button while Right-Clicking the BK icon in the Windows Taskbar and select "Move" Then, without touching the mouse, press the arrow keys to move the window from wherever the "phantom" monitor would be to wherever your laptop monitor is. If it's several screens away, you may have to hold the keys for a bit until it shows up on the laptop screen, but when it does, you should then have normal control. Let me know if that works! Sean E -----Original Message----- From: Jim Ramaley [mailto:james.ramaley@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 10:07 PM To: bk@rootsweb.com Subject: [BK] multiple windows displays and BK quirk I recently obtained a Lonovo Thinkpad and a docking station that allows multiple displays to be connected. The arrangement allows 3 larger screens to be open in addition to the laptop screen. I use them for 1. BK, 2. Ancestry.com, 3. working text file, and 4. other internet lookups (often find-a-grave). It has simplified my work considerably because it is easy to move data between screens. But there is one quirk that perhaps someone has seen and resolved. When BK opens, it starts on the laptop screen, but I usually move it to one of the larger screens and keep my text files on the laptop where I can more easily control font size. The problem comes when I shut down the computer, disconnect it from the docking station, and, at some later time, restart BK on the stand-alone laptop. What appears to happen is that BK tries to start on one of the disconnected monitors. What I see on the laptop screen are my usual icons (including the shortcut to BK) but BK itself is not visible. When I click again on the BK icon I get the message that BK is already running and sure enough, in the start tray it appears but with a blank screen and when I click on it again, nothing happens. If I reconnect the laptop to the docking station, all is well. But if I need to use BK away from the docking station for a while (maybe a couple research days away from home) I don't have this option. I have experimented with several ideas and the one that does seem to work is to delete the options file (bkoption.d7) and restart BK. This options file is then recreated and seems to reinitialize certain processes that allow BK to start on the default (and, at the time, the only) display monitor connected. Of course there are a few options that I need to reset to my preferences. Any ideas? Or a better work-around? Jim Ramaley Gettysburg, PA _______________________________________________ Remember - Use the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search _______________________________________________ Email preferences: http://bit.ly/rootswebpref Unsubscribe https://lists.rootsweb.com/postorius/lists/bk@rootsweb.com Privacy Statement: https://ancstry.me/2JWBOdY Terms and Conditions: https://ancstry.me/2HDBym9 Rootsweb Blog: http://rootsweb.blog RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community
To Jim Ramaley After you start BK, if you can not see it on your main screen, press on the keyboard F10 or else Shift+F10 FN+10 That should bring it back to position 0, 0 for the top and left margins. Let me know if that works for you or not. John Steed ________________________________ From: Jim Ramaley <james.ramaley@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 2:06 AM To: bk@rootsweb.com <bk@rootsweb.com> Subject: [BK] multiple windows displays and BK quirk I recently obtained a Lonovo Thinkpad and a docking station that allows multiple displays to be connected. The arrangement allows 3 larger screens to be open in addition to the laptop screen. I use them for 1. BK, 2. Ancestry.com, 3. working text file, and 4. other internet lookups (often find-a-grave). It has simplified my work considerably because it is easy to move data between screens. But there is one quirk that perhaps someone has seen and resolved. When BK opens, it starts on the laptop screen, but I usually move it to one of the larger screens and keep my text files on the laptop where I can more easily control font size. The problem comes when I shut down the computer, disconnect it from the docking station, and, at some later time, restart BK on the stand-alone laptop. What appears to happen is that BK tries to start on one of the disconnected monitors. What I see on the laptop screen are my usual icons (including the shortcut to BK) but BK itself is not visible. When I click again on the BK icon I get the message that BK is already running and sure enough, in the start tray it appears but with a blank screen and when I click on it again, nothing happens. If I reconnect the laptop to the docking station, all is well. But if I need to use BK away from the docking station for a while (maybe a couple research days away from home) I don't have this option. I have experimented with several ideas and the one that does seem to work is to delete the options file (bkoption.d7) and restart BK. This options file is then recreated and seems to reinitialize certain processes that allow BK to start on the default (and, at the time, the only) display monitor connected. Of course there are a few options that I need to reset to my preferences. Any ideas? Or a better work-around? Jim Ramaley Gettysburg, PA _______________________________________________ Remember - Use the Archives at https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Farchiver.rootsweb.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fsearch&data=02%7C01%7C%7C191eb69b54894c300ae208d726a5739d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637020364352285124&sdata=WqbpZLwSu5yNxxuDjYpN9JHHkHVkzsLH4O65wuox8Hw%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ Email preferences: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2Frootswebpref&data=02%7C01%7C%7C191eb69b54894c300ae208d726a5739d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637020364352285124&sdata=9772Iz5QFiJG9DrZ5ivWLuguOp4VAiwrrm%2F%2F64I9DX8%3D&reserved=0 Unsubscribe https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flists.rootsweb.com%2Fpostorius%2Flists%2Fbk%40rootsweb.com&data=02%7C01%7C%7C191eb69b54894c300ae208d726a5739d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637020364352285124&sdata=aYYDMbp89xDDVP83vxdyQVm3vy2yd9hMtBZXuClf6kg%3D&reserved=0 Privacy Statement: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fancstry.me%2F2JWBOdY&data=02%7C01%7C%7C191eb69b54894c300ae208d726a5739d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637020364352285124&sdata=svLkh6VEhuxJ%2FkCAQfKc8aU3IQyFi7fhF6Fp0BbMvKg%3D&reserved=0 Terms and Conditions: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fancstry.me%2F2HDBym9&data=02%7C01%7C%7C191eb69b54894c300ae208d726a5739d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637020364352295141&sdata=8o5xej7Hdp0cy2%2BdrOt4CV6kxVivOpfl5YUTtToyP9g%3D&reserved=0 Rootsweb Blog: https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frootsweb.blog&data=02%7C01%7C%7C191eb69b54894c300ae208d726a5739d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637020364352295141&sdata=NfpNgQUeFJ9rPbebPhq9dDCxhuKGim1gzPdFqNg09m0%3D&reserved=0 RootsWeb is funded and supported by Ancestry.com and our loyal RootsWeb community