Mavericks resizes application windows and moves them around

still no fix for this?

Experiencing the same problem ever since I installed Mavericks on my 2012 Mac Mini, with HDMI-connected Iiyama monitor.

is it normal that since Mavericks out no response has been given to this problem by Apple ?

same problem on macbook pro retina

Same problem - MBA13.. Very annoying.. please help.

Same problem : iMac with HDMI/DVI-connected Iiyama monitor !!!

Thank you UtterChaos for your "cmd+alt+D" workaround !

VERY annoying !

+1 on a 27" iMac10,1 with an external monitor via a

Mini DisplayPort To VGA Adapter, 90º rotated.

Changing resolution worked. Got too annoyed to click through the system preference so I opted for a command-line option:

http://blog.gnub.net/2014/01/working-around-disappearing-windows-bug.html

Still annoying, but at least I don't have to reach for my mouse every time it happens...

-les

This is probably legit, they called me a few days ago, but I have not been having the problem recently, so I didn't want to have to spend a bunch of time doing testing on my machine. I pionted out that a lot of people on this thread have been experiencing the issue, and the Apple support rep assured me that they were following up.

I own a 2013 MacBook Air and a 2012 iMac. Same odd behavior occuring on both Macs once Mavericks was installed. All apps will snap off to the upper left randomly and won't allow themselves to be moved back. Very, very frustrating! Apple -- please fix this!

+1 on 2013 27" iMac

I figured this problem would be fixed by now so I haven't piped in, but it hasn't. I've seen a couple mentions of apple calling people to talk about the problem so here I am in case they want another guinea pig.

For me it's a 2013 iMac 27" and the problem only seems to exist when switching users on this computer (from the menu item vs. logging out and then logging back into a different user).

Safari and iTunes and Parallels (windowed virtualizations vs. full screen) and any Finder windows always jump to the upper left corner, but Mail and Messages go to the upper right corner (only they extend off the right edge leaving only about half an inch or less of window area to grab). All my desktop icons also disappear, but I don't know where they go.

All windows shrink vertically when they're moved.

Changing the screen resolution and Command-Option-D both bring my desktop items back and "unlocks" the items stuck in the corners. Finder windows always bounce back to the center of the screen and stack themselves and are all the exact same size. Then I have to resize all the windows that got bounced in all the other apps.

this bug is preventing me from installing on the rest of my computers so I'm hoping for a fix soon.

I have a '12 core i7 mini with single 24" display via HDMI. Single user.

Today, waking the mini from sleep, my two open windows for openoffice, which I was working on before the system went to sleep, have moved off screen.

I see a shadow in the upper left corner of my screen and that's it.

In mission control I see two collapsed window bars with the title of my documents under an openoffice logo.

No way to get my document windows back though.

Switching the window resolution in Preferences down to a lower than native resolution brings those two bars to the center of my screen and I can click + to enlarge them back to full screen.

Hi,

I have a late 2009 iMac and I have experienced the same problems. Typically, Mavericks affects Mail, Safari, Chrome and Console. The first three apps run in full screen mode, so a "nice" way te restore the snapped windows is to change the full-screen mode to normal window mode and back, and this solves the issue. Well, in Mail, the folders column disappears so I have to reset it manually.

As for Console, I have to close and re-open the application to have it work again.

I got a lot of warning when Mail cannot be displayed correctly:

02/02/14 15:10:55,718 Mail[601]: All available displays report that they are mirrors. This seems wrong. Please comment in <rdar://problem/14731307> if you see this log

02/02/14 15:10:56,671 Mail[601]: Unable to simultaneously satisfy constraints:

(

"<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x6080004855a0 h=--& v=--& H:[MailBarContainerView:0x6080001d99b0(0)]>",

"<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x600000290400 h=-&- v=-&- H:[FavoritesBarView:0x7fb109c20e90]-(0)-| (Names: '|':MailBarContainerView:0x6080001d99b0 )>",

"<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x6000002903b0 h=-&- v=-&- H:|-(77)-[FavoritesBarView:0x7fb109c20e90] (Names: '|':MailBarContainerView:0x6080001d99b0 )>"

)

Will attempt to recover by breaking constraint

<NSAutoresizingMaskLayoutConstraint:0x600000290400 h=-&- v=-&- H:[FavoritesBarView:0x7fb109c20e90]-(0)-| (Names: '|':MailBarContainerView:0x6080001d99b0 )>

Set the NSUserDefault NSConstraintBasedLayoutVisualizeMutuallyExclusiveConstraints to YES to have -[NSWindow visualizeConstraints:] automatically called when this happens. And/or, break on objc_exception_throw to catch this in the debugger.

02/02/14 15:10:56,878 Mail[601]: It does not make sense to draw an image when [NSGraphicsContext currentContext] is nil. This is a programming error. Break on void _NSWarnForDrawingImageWithNoCurrentContext() to debug. This will be logged only once. This may break in the future.

02/02/14 15:10:56,878 Mail[601]: Failed to create a CGColorRef from the NSColor NSPatternColorSpace <NSImage 0x600000864540 Size={0, 0} Reps=(

"NSCustomImageRep 0x60000029b8a0 Size={0, 64} ColorSpace=NSCalibratedRGBColorSpace BPS=0 Pixels=0x0 Alpha=NO"

)> (this warning is only given once)

02/02/14 15:10:57,566 Mail[601]: All available displays report that they are mirrors. This seems wrong. Please comment in <rdar://problem/14731307> if you see this log

02/02/14 15:10:57,574 Mail[601]: All available displays report that they are mirrors. This seems wrong. Please comment in <rdar://problem/14731307> if you see this log

Another issue I see is that the desktop doesn't show the correct icons in case I have images on it. For instance, if I have a file on the desktop named "image.jpg" I will see a generic icon and not its preview. I have to relauch finder to solve this issue.

This is how I see Chrome whenever I switch back to my account from another user:

and this is how I see Safari: transparency zones are wrong and not all the window is used

I have reported this issue as a bug in the dedicated apple website (apple bug reporter) and the answer I got was the following:

Engineering has determined that your bug report is a duplicate of another issue and will be closed.

The open or closed status of the original bug report your issue was duplicated to appears in the yellow "Duplicate of XXXXXXXX" section of the bug reporter user interface. This section appears near the top of the right column's bug detail view just under the bug number, title, state, product and rank.

The bug is a Duplicate of 14731307 (Open)

I have had to roll back to ML because these issues were unbearable to me; I am just hoping for a fix soon.

My Mac mini has been running a bit crap lately, including the issue of windows getting stuck. I didn't want to reinstall osx, but today, bit the bullet, and decided to reinstall...

You'll never Belleive what happened during the install... Display went to sleep, so woke it up, to find the Mavericks Install window caught in the top left, just like what was happening before.

This is on the internet recovery partition, so there's no 3rd party app causing the problem, the recovery mode is all apple code!

I'm now a bit dis-heartened about waiting 8 hours to reinstall osx, to most likely have the issue re-occur.

Not happy!

I don't know what you people think about this issue. In my humble opinion there is simply NO WAY a serious company would leave its software with a bug this bad (I guess everybody who works with his/her Mac and is experiencing this bug couldn't agree more) for more than 4 months. This logically implies that Apple is no longer a serious company, at least in the computer field. I honestly can't believe that I have to deal with this problem at least 4/5 times per day (on average), and I will seriously take it into account when I will buy my next piece of hardware - because in my field I'm quite free to choose the OS I prefer.

The fact that Mavericks has been distributed for free is all but an excuse, and it seems like the software support has been left in the users' own hands.

I am really, really, really disappointed.

I was having a separate issue with my audio interface and somebody (a friend not anybody at apple) gave me a copy of the 10.9.2 beta and said it should fix those two issues. it did. once 10.9.2 gets pushed to the public this problem should be no more...