420214 - context menus and tooltips show up on the wrong monitor in multi-monitor setups

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 314279

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

version 2.0.0.13pre (20080227)

Steps to reproduce:

1) Open Thunderbird on a Mac Book Pro (in my case, perhaps other machines have this issue as well) without an external monitor attached.
2) Attach an external monitor to the DVI port.
3) Move the Thunderbird window onto the external monitor.
4) Hover the mouse over a folder with unread messages or right click on anything that has a context menu
5) observe the context menu or tooltip appears in the upper-right corner of the laptop's built-in screen instead of overtop of where the mouse pointer is.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

C'mon over to the trunk, you know you want to. As far as I know, we haven't even had a "can't send mail" bug for two days straight!

Comment 2

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

heh.  No wonder I didn't find that bug, it was against the browser, and just happened to affect TB too. ;)

I've been debating it.  Too much of my life is in TB right now to chance having it break :)  Especially since it's starting to sound like there's going to be some more major upheaval before TB3.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

(In reply to comment #2)
> heh.  No wonder I didn't find that bug, it was against the browser, and just
> happened to affect TB too. ;)

oh, it was resolved, too, I was only looking at open bugs :)