Lost the Project Group. Help me recover it
lazarus / 9-Editor

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EganSolo · 2025-12-23 01:33

Windows restarted abruptly. When I restarted Laz 4.4 in docked mode,
the main editor window was lost, but I’ve managed to bring it back.
However, I’m unable to display the project group window. I tell Laz to
open an existing project group, but the window doesn’t appear.
Clicking on center lost window does nothing. I suspect the window’s
coordinates are messed up. Is there a way to reset it, or do I need to
edit a specific config file to fix this?

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marcov · 2025-12-23 10:39

Try Window -> center a lost window.

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Martin_fr · 2025-12-23 12:32

Its either docked some where in a tab (possible nested in another tab,
so you don't see it) => then nothing will activate that tab. "Center a
lost window" was made for an undocked IDE. It needs someone to
implement a solution for the docked IDE.

Or, in some rare cases, the area/dock-panel which contains it, has
become zero (or negative) sized. It had been observed (but no one know
why or how to fix) that very occasionally a dock area will move to be
outside the viewport of the window.
That can only be fixed by editing/removing the xml with the stored
layout (somewhere in your primary config path)