Opera not remembering its window position properly

ogrfnkl

ogrfnkl

Starting about a week ago, Opera has been having trouble keeping its window position from one session to the next. Before that, it always opened in the same place where I always keep it--flush with the left and top edges of the screen. Now, it opens shifted about 20 pixels or so to the right from the left edge (and still flush with the top edge, no problem there). Adjusting the window, closing and then reopening it produces the same error in horizontal positioning every time. This only happens when I place the window within 20 pixels of the left edge. If placed anywhere else, the position is remembered correctly. It looks as if some setting is not allowing the window to remain too close to the left edge of the screen. This is only happening with Opera. Other browsers (Google, Edge, Firefox) have no trouble keeping their position. Any idea what's going on with this?

nunya

nunya @ogrfnkl

@ogrfnkl

my first inclination would be:
make sure your position is at 0 and not -1

Without knowing your level of confidence, if it was me, I would open up the settings file and manually edit the placement.
And then, if it moves after, you can check the file to see where it is moving to.

ogrfnkl

ogrfnkl

@nunya Thanks for your reply! Following your suggestion, I've checked what happens in the "preferences" file and found that the horizontal "window_placement" parameter is 0 when the window is positioned at about 20 pixels or so to the right of the left edge of the screen. If I leave it any closer to the edge, the value becomes negative, and when Opera is restarted, the window is repositioned at that minimum distance (curiously, the value in the preferences file remains negative). If I indent the window by more than 20 pixels, the value in preferences reflects the correct position and the placement is kept between restarts. I have also noticed that the placement values seem to be expressed in 1080p-sized pixels, even though I have a 4K screen, but that, I think, is still a common practice in software design. What I don't understand is why Opera would regard window positions that are too close to the left edge as negative...