Closed Bug 174331 Opened 22 years ago Closed 20 years ago

New/Navigator Window appears off-screen if 2nd monitor was used and then disconnected due to stored info in localstore.rdf file

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 27126

People

(Reporter: dmm, Assigned: asa)

References

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020814
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020814

I connected a second monitor to my mac, and moved the navigator window to
the 2nd monitor, and used it normally.  Then I quit the application,
diconnected the monitor, and when I restarted mozilla there was no navigator
window anymore.  Every time I started a new navigator window from
the file menu, nothing would appear, yet they would be listed under the "window"
menu.

Finally the idea occured to me that the geometry information might be
stored somewhere in a file.  So I found the:
/Users/USERNAME/Library/Mozilla/Profiles/default/cv4bre3s.slt/localstore.rdf
file, and I removed that.  Then I started up Mozilla again, the Navigator
window as back in place, but a lot of my preferences were gone.

So, I think to fix this you need to check the info in that file to see
if the geometry information is currently valid, and if not, use default
settings so that the initial navigator window will appear.

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hook up 2nd monitor to computer
2. put navigator window on 2nd monitor
3. quit mozilla
4. disconnect 2nd monitor
5. start up mozilla


Expected Results:  
Mozilla should have determined that the geometry information in the
localstore.pdf file was no longer valid and used a reasonable default
value to display the navigator window on the currently existing geometry.
I'm pretty sure I've seen a bug filed about this already.
Keywords: qawanted
Summary: New -> Navigator Window appears off-screen if 2nd moniter was used and then disconnected due to stored info in localstore.rdf file → New/Navigator Window appears off-screen if 2nd monitor was used and then disconnected due to stored info in localstore.rdf file
Whiteboard: DUPEME
See bug 27126 and bug 99236
*** Bug 188375 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
*** Bug 211752 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Blocks: multimon-win
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
Has this bug happened to anyone in the past year or so? If not, I'll dupe it to
bug 27126 (fixed).
No known recurrences in 2004.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27126 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Keywords: qawanted
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Whiteboard: DUPEME
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