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I've found that the silliest desktop problems are usually the hardest to solve, and the "serious" linux system errors are the easiest.
System doesn't boot? Look at error message, boot from a rescue disk, mount root filesystem and fix what you did wrong.
Wrong mouse cursor theme in some Plasma applications, ignoring your settings? Some weird font rendering issue? Bang your head against a wall exploring various dotfiles and rc files in your home directory for two weeks, and eventually give up and nuke your profile and reconfigure your whole desktop from scratch.
A couple of weeks ago I moved Firefox to one side. Window disappeared, but Firefox was still running "somewhere" on my desktop, but was not actually be rendered to the screen. Killing the process and relaunching just resulted in it be rendered to this weird black hole. Log out of gnome and log back in? Same! Reboot? Same!
Ended up deleting it's config folder and re-attaching to Firefox sync in order to have it working again. No idea what went wrong, nor will I ever most likely.
There really should be a hotkey for "move window to primary display" or somesuch. The worst is when just the top "cleat" of the window is inaccessible, making it impossible to simply move the window yourself.
Alternately, a CLI tool to just trash a specific app's window settings, or a system control panel that lets you browse these settings, would be incredible.
Hold down meta and you can drag the window from anywhere (on gnome at least thats a default)