286457 - Notification alert (slide-up window) takes over system

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 286451

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

TB 1.0+0316, Windows 2000

When a new message arrives and TB goes to show the little slide-up alert, my 
entire screen goes gray.  No mouse action does anything.  I can use Alt-Tab and 
view the task-switcher window, and I can Ctrl-Alt-Del, get a full, regular 
screen and the opportunity to show the Task List (or logoff).  Killing TB is the 
only way to get back my screen.

The gray thing appears to be a borderless, always-on-top, full-screen window; I 
can't (for instance) get keystrokes down to TB while it's displayed.

The first time, I logged out and logged back in; when I restarted TB, I noticed 
the unread message in the Inbox and that gave me a clue.

If I turn off the alert, I get the expected tray icon with no grayed-out screen.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 286451 ***