Closed Bug 221196 Opened 21 years ago Closed 7 years ago

matrox dual-head quickdesk driver - maximized windows lose title bar and window border

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Platform:
x86
Windows 2000
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: bugzilla, Unassigned)

References

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030728 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1 hi, I'm using an Matrox G450 Dual Head graphic card. After activating the "MaxView" (see: aditional information) Mozilla (Thunderbird, Firebird, Suite, etc.) windows are displayed incorrect after minimizing and maximizing. First the title isn't displayed anymore. After the second time the window border (including title bar) isn't displayed anymore. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Activate MaxView option 2. maximize mozilla 3. minimize and maximize mozilla MaxView is an option of the Matrox QuickDesk display driver software. program windows are maximized in the display, which ist containing the mouse
Blocks: multimon-win
*** Bug 237245 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Just for clarification MAXview is a feature in Matrox drivers that enables maximizing applications across one monitor in stretched display mode, when Windows sees deskop as 1 large (2048x768) monitor. I'm using dualhead independant, where Windows sees Parhelia as 2 videocards with 2 different displays and I'm not using MAXview. Also G-series and Parhelia series drivers are different (as are the cards) architecture. I also saw this behavior reported by a member of Arstechnica forums with Radeon 9700 Pro with 2 different resolutions under XP Pro and every revision of Ati Catalyst drivers. http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=50009562&f=99609816&m=389009503631&r=665002903631#665002903631 Also I *didn't* saw this under Win2k and independant dualhead (I believe single card-multiple monitor implementation is different under Win2k from WinXP). It also apparently occurs when using triplehead stretched on Parhelia using maxview: http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?p=44316#44316
The bug also appears with thunderbird 0.5 window under WinXP SP1
*** Bug 242086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Summary: matrox dual-head quickdesk driver - maximizing windows → matrox dual-head quickdesk driver - maximized windows lose title bar and window border
The bug is present in Mozilla 1.7 Firefox 0.9 and Thunderbird 0.7. For users of Parhelia and P750 cards I found a workaround. http://forum.matrox.com/mga/viewtopic.php?t=10831
Happens with XP SP2 Classic with Matrox Millenium P650 using Dual-Head Independent mode. The workaround to disable maximize prevents the problem (but is a workaround, not a solution :( )
This one is still present in Firefox 1.0 RC1.
This bug is happening with me at my workplace PC. It's a 1.7 GHz Pentium 4 with a Matrox G400 card using DualHead with two monitors, running Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Firefox 1.0 PR. It wasn't happening until last week, when I made the mistake of letting Windows Update install a new Matrox driver. This probably explains why Leon hasn't seen the bug in a Win2k machine yet - the old driver (i.e., the one that comes in the installation CD) apparently does not produce the bug, at least in Win2k. Unfortunately, I was unable to uninstall the new driver and restore the old one - some critical newer DLL probably remains behind. And I can't deactivate DualHead - I work with technical documentation and translations, so having two monitors allows me to view several documents at once and dramatically improves my productivity. I might add that here, the bug doesn't happen when there is only one Firefox window open - only when there are two or more. But then, in addition to the title bar, menu and border location problems, there is also a problem in the Windows taskbar: the number of Firefox taskbar buttons is always less than the number of open Firefox windows, and sometimes there is no taskbar button at all. I have to carefully minimize all windows one by one to be able to see the hidden Firefox instances.
This seems to be fixed in Firefox 1.0 Yay!
(In reply to comment #9) > This seems to be fixed in Firefox 1.0 Yay! Nope. At least here, Firefox 1.0 Final still causes the bug to happen. But it does seem to have been addressed somehow, because it is now happening intermittently, not all the time. Maybe it has been fixed for other Matrox cards, driver versions and/or operating systems.
As per comment #2, I don't see this on Win2k (Matrox G550). I have the driver set to appear as two graphics cards to Windows. This fixed many problems I was having with MaxView.
(In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > This seems to be fixed in Firefox 1.0 Yay! > > Nope. At least here, Firefox 1.0 Final still causes the bug to happen. But it > does seem to have been addressed somehow, because it is now happening > intermittently, not all the time. Maybe it has been fixed for other Matrox > cards, driver versions and/or operating systems. G450, Win XP, FF 1.0 and a brand new computer (no other programs installed since Firefox was the first thing to go in) the problem still persists. C'mmon ppl lets get this thing fixed pierre
Seeing same thing on G450. Window needs to be restored.
Well, this bug is really getting nasty... ...I'm using Matrox Parhelia with extended Desktop (2560x1028) on two 19" CRT's on the Card running Wondows XP SP 2 with latest updates. I use DVDMax to display the video on an attached TV. The behaviour of this bug is something I don't understand exactly: - when you start the application maximized all is fine - you do a restore or minimize and then a maximize the problem occures - you do a "full screen" and back again (pressed F11 twice) resolves the problem immediately (this is the best workaround until now I think...) So there must be something during the process of "scaling" the window frame to the maximum size. If this was a bug of the windows GUI there would be the same problem with other applications so this has to be a problem within the implementation of the behaviour for the Win32 Window frame element. This has to be located in the very core of every mozilla application. For testing purposes (and for learning XUL) I wrote some small XUL applications and they all have the same bug in it, regardless of what mozilla core or version they run with. Even the newest Beta 2 of Firefox 1.5 isn't aware of this bug... If that's not be fixed in the next few weeks or month's I'll try to get into the source of the core of mozilla by myself and try to debug it to either provide better information for the real developers or to develope a patch or something... greetz, CHaoSlayeR
Matrox P650 DualHead on WinXP SP2 with all Hotfixes. Matrox PowerDesk-HF Driver version 1.10.0.38. Whenever I set PowerDesk-HF to "Maximze Windows: In the display containing the window" it causes this maximize issue. The mozilla window seems to be partially shifted about 1 taskbar height too high. I have my taskbar set to double height, but the problem still occurs with the taskbar set to normal height. I am running UltraMon 2.6.23.0, but the problem occurs whether or not it is running. I have tried setting up Application Specific settings in the Matrox PowerDesk-HF options for Firefox but it does not resolve the issue. I can make available any manner of screenshots required to describe this problem.
Bug 237245 may be a duplicate, but it is more to the point as to what is happening here. I have experienced this bug as well, and am quite frustrated - almost to the point of switching back to IE (never, please, no!). It really does make Firefox difficult to work with in a multi-monitor setup. THIS IS NOT MATROX SPECIFIC! Please fix this bug! (This is my third time reporting this bug...)
*** Bug 331341 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Confirm in 1.5.0.2 in Thunderbird and Firefox. Seems to depend on Matrox settings on my XP SP2 system. When dual display is set up in stretched mode (single window) there is no problem. With 2 displays, independent mode, the problem occurs. Bug has been around for more than 3 years. Seems a long time.
If you have a matrox millenium g450 card and you have installed matrox's quickdesk utility (which is essential to running this card because its dvd performance and direct3d/opengl performance is optimized) , then its pretty much impossible to use firefox because the display is so messed up when you open and try to work in firefox. The people have matrox have been contacted and they are sure that the problem is at mozillas end. This is not a problem with IE , I hope this problem gets solved soon. Im using windows xp -sp2 and firefox 1.5 final along with v1.2.021 of matrox bios (quick desk is also installed from the package i downloaded from matrox's site)
looks same as bug 120314 and bug 286056 dups? this bug looks like it has the best comments, plus votes :)
QA Contact: jrgmorrison → xptoolkit.widgets
For me, this bug seems to have gone away with the installation of the latest Matrox driver.
(In reply to comment #21) > For me, this bug seems to have gone away with the installation of the latest > Matrox driver. Mike, gone away for independent mode? what version driver? does bug 120314 comment 0 sound the same/similar?
My hardware is Parhelia 128MB. Driver is 1.12.0.110 released, from memory, some time this year. Setup is '2 displays, Independent mode (including features)'. Bug 120314 is for a different graphics card and doesn't sound quite the same, though clearly related. Worth installing the latest driver for any Matrox card I would have thought to check whether these kinds of problems have been fixed.
Assignee: jag → nobody
anyone still have this problem? (In reply to umairharoon from comment #19) > If you have a matrox millenium g450 card and you have installed matrox's umairharoon writes "been too long for me to remember :D [whether problem is/was a video driver bug and not firefox bug]"
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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