Windows 10: Pop-up windows do not align with the top left corner

Hi,

I've just noticed a feature which I don't think was present on Windows 7, but is on Windows 10.

When a pop-up window is opened by an application the window is not aligned with the top left corner of the screen, it is slightly padded to the right. This seems to affect both pop-ups from browsers and from other applications (i.e Tkinter python frames).

Is there a way to prevent this from happening? I have written a program that interacts with an application that creates these kinds of pop-ups and my program is expecting the windows to be about 7 pixels to the left of where they are appearing.... any ideas?

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Thanks,
Martin

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Japanese IME predictive pop up in Top Left corner of the screen

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Japanese IME predictive pop up in Top Left corner of the screen

I don't understand the relation between Japanese IME keyboard and drivers. I am not talking about a real keyboard, like physical keyboard, I am talking about the "software" available in windows to type in Japanese. That is just software.

Also, the popup window showing predictive text is related to software as well, the operating system determines where to show the pop up when the Japanese IME software tries to show that popup. And it determines to show it far from the text field. Again how
is that related to drivers.

Laura

 

Yes, it is a known nuisance. Just grab the title bar with left mouse button and snap it up.

 

Thanks for the reply.

Is there any word on this being changed? If not I guess I'll have to add the manual 7 or so pixel pad to my python code....

 

Don't think it's a priority at MS. They may not even consider it a problem or nuisance. Better do what you have to do.... Tomcat.

 

If this is the biggest pain I get going from 7 to 10 I can count myself lucky....

 

Bingo!