Laptop user, this has happened across multiple versions and now on multiple laptops. Because I’m a laptop user, I keep all of my right hand toolbars in a single right hand column. Unlike the Stacked column that comes standard, it just works for my workflow better and it fits the screen better making the tabs easier to find. Because they just live at the bottom, If I keep the right hand toolbar slid over to the right, the tabs at the bottom become small gray squares, some of them are blank, some of them have dots, and some of them have letters and dots. Every once in awhile I’ll need more than one tool menu on the right but trying to get the double stack back is almost impossible. But with enough finesse, time, and patience, I can get it. I don’t usually bother trying my patients at that futile act, while I’m working on something else. I usually just pull the second window out and leave it sitting on the screen until I’m done with it. On to the juicy part, if I put the window back in the right hand column everything’s fine, but if I accidentally click on that little X say bye-bye to the window. I have looked all over, and I cannot find anything that refers to it except in the Windows drop down tab, where you can toggle that particular window on or off, but if you’ve clicked on the X, toggling it does nothing. The only way I have found to get the window back is to reset to the default layout and then rebuild my right hand tool column. Any advice would be appreciated.
I keep the right hand toolbars in one layer lon my Macbook as well. I just tried your experiment. I undocked one of the windows and put in the work area then closed that window. When I recalled it from the windows menu it popped back up wher I had placed it. I also tried closing Lightburn after closing out of the window. When I reopened Lightburn and went to the windows menu it appeared in the same location where I closed it.
Is it possible that the window is reappearing behind your Lightburn screen? Try this, recall the window then drag your Lightburn screen to the bottom and see if it’s hiding behind. Make sure you don’t have any other programs open that it could hide behind.
I’m sorry, I forgot to specify, Windows 11, this has also happened on my Windows 7 laptop. Yes I have wiggled that window all the way to the edge of the screen, I have opened every window and tab, just to have something to close to look behind it. I have even installed a second monitor and set up dual monitors just to look on the other side of my homepage.
I assumed you were running windows. Sounds like you’ve done everything I would have to try and find the window.
Thank you for your first post by the way and doing that experiment. I was honestly confused as to what action I should have been expecting the window to do when I X-ed out of it. I’ve watched every lightburn.YouTube video, but I’ve only seen a reference to this particular action once, then the narrator went on to the next thing like it wasn’t a big deal. I didn’t think it was a bug, I really thought I was just an idiot, (the jury is still out on that I guess) so when it happened to me again yesterday on my new windows 11 gaming laptop, I thought maybe I should reach out for some help.
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