Closed Bug 482465 Opened 16 years ago Closed 15 years ago

Show Desktop sometimes permanently hides main tb window

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(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

x86
Windows Vista
defect
Not set
minor

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(Not tracked)

RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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(Reporter: chris, Unassigned)

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.19 (20081209) This does not happen every time (unfortunately), but sometimes when I click the "show desktop" icon on Windows (Vista), tb minimizes but won't restore. Clicking on the icon in the task bar does nothing that I can see. I can still still successfully close tb by right-clicking and choosing "Close" from the pop-up menu. Re-starting tb gives me a tiny window that I have to stretch back out to its original size (screenshot attached). I'm happy to instrument tb in order to get some status information from it, but I don't really know what I'm doing, so any help would be appreciated. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Click "Show Desktop" to minimize all windows 2. Attempt to restore tb Actual Results: tb does not restore. Other mozilla windows *do* restore (ff, prizm). Expected Results: tb restores to its original view This rarely happens, but it's a pain.
Christopher, can you reproduce with beta 2? (it has lots of windows fixes) backup your profile data** before installing/starting it http://www.mozillamessaging.com/en-US/thunderbird/early_releases/ ** substitute Thunderbird for Firefox verbiage http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Backing+up+your+information
I can give it a shot. Like I said, I can't reproduce it reliably because I don't know what actually triggers it. I tend to reboot my laptop only when Vista updates come across the wire that require a reboot. I hibernate the machine repeatedly between actual reboots and I run a /lot/ of stuff all at once. I'll upgrade to the beta and see if it ever happens again.
Wayne, Hmm... tb3b2 isn't supported by Enigmail, which is a deal-breaker for me unfortunately. I'm going to have to downgrade until that's changed. I usually upgrade to the latest stable version whenever its available so I might be able to comment again later.
(In reply to comment #4) > Wayne, > > Hmm... tb3b2 isn't supported by Enigmail, which is a deal-breaker for me > unfortunately. I'm going to have to downgrade until that's changed. I usually > upgrade to the latest stable version whenever its available so I might be able > to comment again later. You can use the nightlies they are supported by enigmail.
Sure, I can do that. I'm looking at http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/ which one do I choose? latest-trunk? latest-cvs? latest-comm-central-trunk? Sorry, I'm a bit lost here. Thanks!
I got latest-trunk. Looks like you need a nightly enigmail build, too. I suspect enigmail would have run on 3b2. Oh, well, it's done now. I'll let everyone know if this issue crops-up for me again. Thanks for the help.
(In reply to comment #7) > I got latest-trunk. Looks like you need a nightly enigmail build, too. I yes. sorry forgot to tell you.
Okay, this just happened to me again using 3.0b2 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20090223 Thunderbird/3.0b2), so whatever it is, it's not fixed in the more recent versions. Let me know what I can do to help. Thanks!
One more occurrence of this behavior, also on 3.0b2 on Vista, just after an un-hibernate. I was able to get dwm to show the tiny window /without/ restarting tb by right-clicking on the taskbar item and choosing either "size" or "move" (I can't remember). Unfortunately, I can't actually get tb to do anything. Clicking the X button causes Vista to give me the "this program has stopped responding" dialog, so something has definitely gone bad in the process somewhere.
This bug hasn't happened to me in a long time. I've been running tb 3.0 (release version) since it shipped and I don't believe I've experienced this bug during that time.
Christopher, thanks for the feedback. Did you come to any conclusion about what was involved or caused this?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
> sometimes when I click the > "show desktop" icon on Windows (Vista), tb minimizes but won't restore. I see this behavior with Thunderbird 3.0.1 on Vista, so you're not alone Christopher. Unfortunately it's not easily reproducible.
I'm glad I'm not the only one where this has happened. As I mentioned, I haven't seen it in a very long time. And, it was next to impossible to reproduce. AFAIK, I haven't changed my usage behavior in any way between then and now.
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