Closed Bug 161584 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Mozilla does not acknowledge and compensate for monitors connected after it launches

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
UI Design
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: jacob, Assigned: samir_bugzilla)

References

Details

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020722
BuildID:    2002072203

i plugged in a second monitor to my laptop, which gives me a second screen (not
mirrored).  later i removed it.  now, some windows don't seem to pop up anywhere
on my main screen, such as the quickpoll at cnn.com.

they are present in the list of windows both from the Window menu in mozilla,
and by right clicking the mozilla icon in the dock.  if i click on one of these
menu items, nothing (visibly) happens.

i just plugged in a second monitor again, and then if i click on one of the menu
items in the window list the windows appear on the main display.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. start mozilla with one monitor connected
2. plug in a second monitor, and have os x 'detect monitors' if necessary
3. make a new window, drag it to the second monitor
4. unplug the second monitor
5. click on the 'view results' on cnn.com's quickvote

Actual Results:  quickvote window can't be shown/focused

Expected Results:  it should display on my remaining monitor

This is with mozilla release 1.1b
*** Bug 167270 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 167785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 177217 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
similar/related: bug 33438, bug 62395, bug 101103, bug 101843.
Are monitors supposed to be hot-pluggable? I've never heard of that. Firewire
and USB, sure, but monitors?

jacob, can you still reproduce this problem using a current nightly build?
Summary: mozilla does not handle adding/removing monitors well → Mozilla does not acknowledge and compensate for monitors connected after it launches
about hotplug monitors: MacOS has supported this capability for a while...   
   
On Feb 13, I tried with the latest nightly build, and Mozilla behaves much   
better!  I did not test exhaustively, but a few "surprise" disconnect +   
reconnects, both while Mozilla is running and after it has been quit, did not   
result in any off-screen windows.  Also, windows that were on the disappearing  
screen moved to the other one!  Works for me :)  
Resolving WFM per comment 6.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
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