I use Audacity on a MacBook Air with an external desktop screen plugged.
When Audacity is opened, if I unplug the external screen to use my laptop on its own, Audacity becomes unusable because its (front) active window is hidden and not reachable. Even the menus are greyed so the only things you can do is to force Audacity to quit (and loose your projects so you have to repair all of it). I watch that behavior for very long time but tody I decide to report the problem as I fed up with it ! Currently I use Audacity 3.3.2 with MacOS 15.1.1 but as I told before this behavior is not new at all. Thank’s if you could fix this.
Bernard
The window is hidden by what?
Have you tried switching between the applications with holding the command key and then hitting the tab key?
Sorry, I confess my post was not clear.
“Hidden” means you don’t see the window at all.
Please try this:
- use Audacity with external screen pluged in and laptop cover closed, let’s open one or 2 projects → that’s ok.
- open the laptop cover and unplug the external screen, then (from audacity menu) open some recent project(s): you don’t get any project window for the one just opened, anyway these projects appears to be opened in audacity (they are listed in audacity “window” menu). If I select the project name in that menu I stay in the previous active project so I can’t access the last opened.
- re-connect the external screen: doing this I find a very small window for the last opened project, appearing in the left bottom corner of the screen. Now I can access it. - After that, this little window remains shown on the laptop screen when I disconnect again the main screen.
So reconnecting one time the main screen makes hidden widow unhided.
That’s a typical annoyance, this morning I didn’t remeber the sequence in which audacity process needs to be killed because it gets unusable. But imagine a situation where Audacity opens a modal dialog which is not shown on screen, so you can’t dismiss it.
Bernard