Closed Bug 26017 Opened 26 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Preferences window pops up partially off-screen

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P1)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
Preferences
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME
Milestone:
Future

People

(Reporter: reidr, Assigned: samir_bugzilla)

Details

(Whiteboard: [PDT-])

The Preferences window sometimes pops up partially (one time almost completely) off-screen. I had to pull it back to the center of the screen to use it. This may be related to the fact that the main mozilla window itself is fairly small and pops up all over my screen; maybe the preferences window is using some kind of offset from the upper-left corner of that window? When I maximize the mozilla window first, the Preferences window seems to come up in sensible places.
Yep, this was happening in the Friday, Jan. 28, build. Drives me nuts. Nominating this as a "beta1" stopper. Matt, ask McAfee if you need help with this one.
Keywords: beta1
Priority: P3 → P1
Target Milestone: M14
Might be ben's, or related to the dialog problems we had over the weekend. Adding ben to CC list.
PDT-
Whiteboard: [PDT-]
On linux, when i do anything with profile manager that requires a new window, the new window is drawn into video memory, but is invisible. I can select it from the list of windows my window manager provides for me (windowmaker), and it has focus the whole time. When it becomes visible, i see that it is mostly off the screen. I suspect this is related.
prefwindow probably needs a call to the centering function in dialogOverlay.js. Unfortunately this function doesn't work at present because of weird bugs in window metrics in JS, so hooking this up may not do any good...
Why is this "PDT-"? I'm not sure you understand ... this basically make the prefs unusable on Linux. Clearing whiteboard status for re-evaluation. Can you give me more of a reason at least?
Whiteboard: [PDT-]
marked [PDT+] because it doesn't work on Linux. If there is a workaround please remove [PDT+]
Whiteboard: [PDT+]
This only happens when browser is partly off screen. And on some version of unix it does not happen. If some wants to take this bug please do or give me a patch. Otherwise want to downgrade to PTD-
Whiteboard: [PDT+]
We could really ship beta without this.
Whiteboard: [PDT-]
Bulk move of all Pref UI component bugs to new Preferences component. Pref UI component will be deleted.
Component: Pref UI → Preferences
Target Milestone: M14 → M15
Move to M16 for now ...
Target Milestone: M15 → M16
Target Milestone: M16 → M18
pardon the spam: beta1 is long gone...removing this keyword. will soon replace w/nsbeta2...
Keywords: beta1
Move to M20 target milestone.
Target Milestone: M18 → M20
centerWindowOnScreen() isn't centering properly, good idea though.
Is this related to bug 49082?
is this still an issue?
Assignee: matt → sgehani
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla1.0
Target Milestone: mozilla1.0 → Future
no answer, marking worksforme.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
Sorry for not responding sooner. I think this was fixed long ago.
mass-verifying WorksForMe bugs. reopen only if this bug is still a problem with a *recent trunk build*. mail search string for bugspam: AchilleaMillefolium
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Browser → Seamonkey
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