So, I decided to put this on my blog as there’s about 1000 mentions of this problem and none of this simple solution. First, let me start by saying, if you encounter this problem with a program other than Eclipse, please let me know… this seems to be a pervasive problem in Eclipse and it’s derivatives (Aptana Studio, RadRails, etc…)
To get your application’s title bar back on the window, hit F8 to bring up the function key, and then use the spaces view to select the window that you want and drag it to some place where it’s more useful.
Anyway, this will probably be more helpful for people on MacOSX Leopard (and onwards) than otherwise, but it’s been very helpful to me. It seems to affect mostly Eclipse for some reason, but the bug/feature (this wouldn’t be an issue on XWindows) has been around basically forever.
Tags: eclipse, macosx, macosx hacks
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Thank you!!! Happens to me all the time with Adobe apps. I have a multi-monitor setup and they don’t seem to detect when they’ve been moved to different sized monitors and get themselves into situations where the titlebar is off screen.

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