Open
Bug 135563
Opened 22 years ago
Updated 16 years ago
biff popup showing up in front of screen saver
Categories
(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
NEW
People
(Reporter: granrosebugs, Unassigned)
Details
This is in 2002040410 on win98. I run setiathome with the password enabled on my win98 box as my screen saver. I just noticed that the xul popup that pops out of the system tray every time I have new mail is visible on top of my screensaver when it is enabled and my system is locked. I am unable to click on the link since it disappears due to the password prompt that appears as soon as I move the mouse. However, it seems that when my screen is locked, nothing should show up on top of my screen saver.
Jon, The xul biff popup (Mail alert) will only stay up only 3 secs. Then dissapears. I tried this with my NT 4.0 box and the alert did not pop up over my screen saver when new mail was received. My Windows system tray is at the bottom. But when I tested on my 2k, I happened to have screen saver preview running and I happened to receive a new mesg. And in this case, I did see the alert dialog pop up in front of the screen saver.
I've similarly seen this come up when I was viewing a full-screen Powerpoint presentation, and Netscape 6 was running but minimized, and the window came up then.
Comment 3•22 years ago
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It also happens with DirectX fullscreen applications under w2k. This may cause crashes. I think the reason is that Mozilla uses DirectX for fast screen drawing. When accessing the screen throu DirectX it writes directly into the frame buffer and no clipping or checking is performed for fullscreen applications (like screensaver or directx games). I don't know how to solve the problem without deactivating DirectX for the biff icon popup.
Updated•20 years ago
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Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Updated•19 years ago
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Assignee: sspitzer → mail
Comment 4•17 years ago
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In fact SeaMonkey should detect if a full screen application is running before displaying the mail notification popup. This option exists in Avast for example.
Updated•16 years ago
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Assignee: mail → nobody
QA Contact: stephend → message-display
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