On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 12:57 PM, R. Mattes <rm@mh-freiburg.de> wrote:

On Sun, 2 Feb 2014 12:05:45 -0500, Paul Davis wrote

> On Sun, Feb 2, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Fons Adriaensen <fons@linuxaudio.org> wrote:
>
> I'd agree with the OP that Ardour should provide a way to recover
> torn-off windows if they ever get lost off-screen or otherwise.
>
>
> an excellent and seemingly obvious idea. i'll add it today.

After reading Fons' mail I was about to reply that one could
simply save the initial view and then later on restore it.
But, to my astonishment, 'goto view ...' doesn't restore UI state.
I have to admit that I never used views before, but wouldn't that
be the mechanism to use?

the definition of what a "view" is can be subject to quite a bit of variation. it does not (currently) include every aspect of window configuration but is mostly about track visibility, zoom level, timeline position and vertical scroll.