Closed Bug 141204 Opened 22 years ago Closed 21 years ago

With dual-head Mac, right-click on left screen shows popup on right screen

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(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

PowerPC
macOS
defect
Not set
minor

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 158914

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(Reporter: kbh7, Assigned: samir_bugzilla)

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Details

(Keywords: qawanted)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.0+)
Gecko/20020428
BuildID:    2002042808

With a second, external display connected to my PowerBook G4
to the left of my display, popup (right-click) menus appear
on the primary (LCD) display, not under the cursor.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Get a PowerBook G4 (heh).
2. Plug in an external monitor, non-mirrored, to the left of
the default screen
3. Right-click on a browser window on the external display

Actual Results:  The popup menu shows up at the correct height, but on the
LCD, not the external display.

Expected Results:  The popup menu should appear directly under the cursor.

Bug 135746 is also about dual-head on the Mac, but that's a crash,
and I don't think it's directly related.

This appears to be happening for form widgets, as well: my external display
is higher than my LCD, and form popups extend below the bottom of the
display they're on, but would display correctly if on the LCD.  (Does that
make sense?)
Whiteboard: DUPEME
Ok, I narrowed it down some.  If you plug in an external display, get Mac OS X
to detect it, and then start Mozilla, it works great.  You only see this bug
when you start Mozilla, plug in the external display, and have OS X detect that
display while Mozilla is running.

Since there's a simple workaround (restart Mozilla after you plug in your
display), I think "minor" describes it pretty well.
Severity: normal → minor
Same thing under MacOS 8.6 but I can't pin down the exact steps/circumstance to
reproduce...
*** Bug 159584 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
This also occurs when you start your laptop with only the external display
enabled, and then enable the LCD (by opening the laptop and clicking on 'detect
displays').

As you say, the w/a is to (re)start mozilla after the displays are configured.

I think the subject is somewhat misleading (and, therefore, not particularly
easy to search for). I beleive the term 'head' refers to a complete graphics
pipeline, and since this only has one pipeline, it isn't dual-head. IINM,
dual-channel is a more appropriate term. I also don't think it matters which
side of the LCD you have your external monitor configured - the subject
specifies that the LCD is to the right of the external monitor.

Small points, but it might make it easier to search for and, therefore, reduce
the number of duplicates (not that there's like to be many).

(BTW, this problem doesn't occur on dual channel SGI machines).

Thanks.

Max.
Adding qawanted to match DUPEME on whiteboard.
Keywords: qawanted
resembles bug 61000
This is showing how Mozilla 1.3a displays the URL completion menu on the wrong
display on OS X (Powerbook G4, OS X 10.2.3). Mozilla was started on the primary
built-in LCD panel. Later, an external monitor was connected and upon wake-up,
the Powerbook automatically extended the desktop to both monitors and moved the
menu-bar to the external display, as it became the primary. But all drop-down
menus *within Mozilla* (not the system menu bar) are still displayed on the
built-in LCD.

(color-reduced image due to size limitation)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158914 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 21 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
Whiteboard: DUPEME
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