autocomplete not working on second monitor
I've recently updated to 2017.3.3 (I was on 2017.1.2 for a long time...) and I noticed that autocomplete doesn't seem to be working properly on my second monitor...
I have pycharm spread across 2 identical monitors. On one monitor, autocomplete pops up and I can see the various suggestions, choose one, and use it; however, it doesn't seem to pop up properly on the other monitor. It looks like autocomplete is still there and technically functioning, because I can arrow up and down to select different suggestions and use them, but I can't actually SEE the suggestions I'm selecting... the popup is either invisible or coming up "behind" the main pycharm window.
Anyone else having this issue, or a suggestion for fixing it? Thanks!
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I am experiencing this exact problem using "IntelliJ IDEA 2018.1.1". When I move the main window back to the first monitor, the problem goes away. I am working on a Ubuntu 17.10 machine running the GNOME shell.
The autocomplete pop-up does not show up properly on the second monitor, but I can see a light gray bar where the bottom of the pop-up would be. On top of that, the menu pulldowns are misplaced on the second monitor; they do not show up directly below the menu bar item, but offset to the right or left by varying amounts.
I've made a bug report for this issue if you want to take a look at it (there's also more of a description there):
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-29722
Something interesting I just figured out this morning and added in a comment is that if the pycharm window does not completely cover the desktop/background, then the autocomplete popup doesn't seem to work correctly, but once I stretch it to the edges of the screens, it seems to "fix" the issue. I don't know if it will help you or not... but it's worth a try, I guess.
You can address this issue by making the extended monitor your Main Display from the Mac SystemPreferences Display settings.
:)