Issue With Disappearing Toolbars

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Hi everyone,
As long as I’ve been using SU, I am embarrassed to ask question that I have a feeling has a very easy solution. But it has been bugging me for sometime so here goes…

I am using Windows 10 with two monitors; the small one on the laptop and a larger 4K which I use for nearly all of my modeling work. So here’s the problem, when I load a new extension (and even with some of the older ones) and turn on the toolbars they often don’t show up on my main screen. Sometimes I find them floating in the middle or even slightly off the left edge of my laptop screen. Sometime I never find them at all and have to use a workaround by using the drop-down menus.

So, the question is, do you’all know a way of resetting them to show up within my SU tab? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated…Mick

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Have you tried resetting the Workspace in Preferences>Workspace?

Do you have the larger display set as the number 1 display in the Nvidia control panel?

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Make sure the screen you want is set to Main Monitor.

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Just tried it. Still not seeing the tool bar I’m trying to find. It shows up checked when I open the toolbar list (with open not on my main window but on the laptop too. grrrrrrr

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Not sure exactly what you mean, Box and where that setting is. Is it a windows setting?

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Reduce the size of the SketchUp window so you can clear some space on the desktop to look for the toolbar. Does it show as underneath? It shouldn’t but…

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Right click on the Windows desktop someplace. Do you see a menu item for Nvidia Control Panel?

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Tried that, Dave, and no, still can’t find it.

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Type Control Panel in the Windows search window in the task bar. Do you see the Nvidia control panel icon there?

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If you go to Display settings, multiple displays, use as main monitor.
I’m on a phone so going from memory. So it is something like the above.

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I think I finally got it to work by doing into the display setting and making my big monitor the “main display” at the very bottom. A setting I have not even seen before. Thanks so much guys for your help!!!

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Did that sort out your toolbar thing, too?

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Yes. It magically appeared in the SU window/tab. YEAH!!

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Perfect!

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Thanks so much, Dave and Box!!

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I realize this is an old thread, but I have this same problem regularly. I know how to fix it, but I have to turn off one monitor and then reset my desktop in order to find the menus that jump off. This typically takes 5 minutes to get back to work. The problem and why I’m writing now is that it happens a lot. So what I am asking here is why do the menus keep jumping off the menu bar? What can I do to keep my menus on the menu bar (I never, ever have floating menus).

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What version of SketchUp are you using? Complete your profile.

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Are you using a dock?

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Sorry, I completed my profile. I’m using the latest Sketchup always. RIght now it is 2022 with the pro version for desktop. I have two monitors that are different sizes and they switch windows when it sleeps (that’s a Windows problem). However, I’m not sure why the menus keep getting knocked off the menu bar and then float out into space. It has never happened except during “sleep”.

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No dock. Just a dual monitor card with two different sized monitors.