The Android emulator is out of view, how can I move it?

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I used an additional display with my laptop and moved the Android emulator there. It seems to remember the location even if the display is not connected anymore.

Is there any way to reset the position of the window so it becomes visible again?

Specifying your operating system here might have been helpful. I'm glad you fixed your issue all the same — FellowMD, Jul 20 '12 at 03:45

score 195 · Answer 1 · edited Aug 12 '15 at 09:39

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You can use this Method for moving any window that is off the screen in a windows environment.

First Select the window either by Alt-Tab or Click clicking it
Press Alt & Space keys together
Press "M" or select it with the mouse Use your arrow keys to move the Window
Press Enter to exit

This is far easier than editing any files.

edited Aug 12 '15 at 09:39

Lucky

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answered Mar 29 '15 at 08:46

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Pefect. Use arrow keys at the end. – Khushboo Jun 10 '15 at 08:41
Worked fine on Win7 x64. Thanks! – Kris Krause Jul 08 '15 at 14:21
Using the arrow keys worked for me while editing the emulator-user.ini file stopped working (tried both API 21 & 22 AVDs). – fantom Aug 15 '15 at 06:16
Sorry, I know this is the standard Windows short-cut for moving windows, however, for some reason I'm not able to move my AVD window at all. It's immovable. :( – Yellen Sep 14 '15 at 16:04
Alt+space worked for me using taskbar Thanks – R7G May 03 '21 at 16:35

score 69 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 12 '15 at 09:37

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more exactly from your home directory

(on Linux: $HOME/ on Windows: C:\Users\<your user> ) go into

.android/avd/<image name>

open the file emulator-user.ini and set window.x and window.y to 0.

window.x = 0
window.y = 0

If you don't see the hidden dir .android on Linux press Ctrl+H and from Windows select View>Options>View (Tab) and select "Show hidden files"

EDIT:

If the file emulator-user.ini doesn't exist, close the emulator window, then check the avd directory again. This is because emulator-user.ini is generated after the first run of the emulator.

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answered Jun 11 '13 at 10:01

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Why i can not find the file emulator-user.ini under the path – Mr Lou May 27 '15 at 01:28
If you can't find emulator-user.ini, just create it – Ahmed Ghonim Apr 04 '19 at 06:43

score 20 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 20 '12 at 03:39

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It was easy. I opened the avd location and the file emulator-user.ini contains the location and can be changed.

Maybe someone else needs it.

answered Jul 20 '12 at 03:39

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I had this problem with Windows 7 and the answer fixed my situation. I only wish I knew how I'd moved the emulator out of view initially... It was frustrating because Alt-Tab showed the emulator in its full glory, tantalizingly close but out of reach :) – gcbound Nov 17 '12 at 15:31
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The arrow keys worked (my mouse did not) using Alt + space answer. – Kris Krause Jul 08 '15 at 14:22
^ mouse will only work once the Title Bar is onscreen, so arrow keys until its onscreen and then you "should" be able to do the rest of the movement with your mouse. 2015 \m/ – straya Jul 29 '15 at 23:26

score 15 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 14 '15 at 19:45

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Alt+Space then use the arrow keys

answered Aug 14 '15 at 19:45

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Bingo. I'm able to move the window with arrows after selecting Move. I can move the window to another screen with the mouse. – isherwood Sep 24 '15 at 14:43

score 6 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 29 '15 at 07:51

At First Go-to your AVD MANAGER SECTION & Click On It ,Then

Right Click on Your Virtual Mobile & See "Show On Disk " & Click on it
Then you see Your AVD Drive & see emulator-user.ini & Then open it .
set value window.x = 0 window.y = 0
Close & Restart Your Project & AVD Also .

score 3 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 28 '15 at 14:41

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Alt + Space works just fine. The emulator-user.ini answer did not work for me.

Thanks.

answered Sep 28 '15 at 14:41

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 23 '15 at 08:35

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For windows 10 users, just press

ctrl + alt + up_arrow_key

Side note:

ctrl + alt + left_arrow_key
ctrl + alt + right_arrow_key
ctrl + alt + down_arrow_key

this will rotate your screen

answered Oct 23 '15 at 08:35

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score 0 · Answer 8 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

For Windows operating system Control panel -> Programs -> Turn window features on or off -> check Telnet client and Telnet server option -> ok

now open your cmd as administrator come to your 'c' drive path using cd\

C:\Users\Harin>cd\

C:\telnet localhost 5554

now it's open new window write

window scale 0.3

here 5554 is your emulator screen number and 0.3 is your screen size, you can change as you want for example 0.2 or 0.4 etc

score 0 · Answer 9 · answered Mar 25 '19 at 22:21

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if you see the toolbar next to it but don't see the emulator, click on the zoom button and it will appear.

answered Mar 25 '19 at 22:21

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josue.0 · Answer 10 · 2019-12-08T00:39:21.240

In my case none of the answers related to move the emulator window worked.

To make it work with "scale and layout" NOT in 100% (as I had in my case) I had to do this

Also did this (not sure if necessary, but in case somebody needs it):

I had to right click on desktop, then "display properties", then "Advanced scaling settings", then set the scaling to 100% (I had it in 250%), then open the emulator and resize it as small as possible and put it in the top left of my screen. Then "Turn off custom scaling and sign out", then I could see and resize my emulator window.

score 0 · Answer 11 · answered Oct 30 '20 at 20:09

If you are using Mac and you aren't able to move the emulator by normal dragging the emulator then do this.

Display Mission Control using control + arrow up.
Move the emulator to your new window/monitor.
click on the emulator or control + arrow down

done!

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