Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 20227
dual screen setup, some dialog boxes & new windows display on wrong screen.
Last modified: 2013-07-30 02:14:16 UTC
Issue 19879 shows that menu systems used to display on wrong screen. That has indeed been fixed. There are however several OO writer windows that still popup on the wrong screen. I assume the same goes for other OO applications. I went over all OO Writer menu options and listed these observed "misses" when working with OO Writer on the secondary screen ! Since I've gone over all at least 2 levels, I think I've listed almost all cases. - Menu options Window>New or File>New>Text document. Opens window on primary screen, including a complete menu systems, buttons,.... Suggestion: The focus should remain on the screen the user is working on and new windows should open there. - Menu File>Send>Document as e-mail: The subsequent "choose e-mail profile" popup appears on primary screen. Same suggestion as above. - Menu Edit>Find and Replace: The subsequent "Find and Replace" dialog box appears on primary screen. Same suggestion as above. - Menu View>Full Screen: The subsequent full screen image appears on primary window. Same suggestion as above. - Menu Format>Character: The subsequent "Character" dialog box appears on primary screen. Same suggestion as above. - Menu Format>Styles Catalog (Ctrl-F11): The subsequent "Character" dialog box appears on primary screen. However when you click "New" from there, the "Paragraph style" and "Page Style" dialog boxes appear again on the secundary screen. New "Character style", "Frame Style" and "Numbering style" appear on the primary screen. Same suggestion as above. - Menu Format>Stylist (F11): Popup appears on primary. Same suggestion as above. - Menu Tools>Data Sources: Dialog box appears off center to bottom right. Suggestion: Should be centered like other dialog boxes. - Menu Insert>Fields>Other: Dialog box appears off center to bottom right. Suggestion: Should be centered like other dialog boxes. - Menu Tools>Bibliography database: Appears on primary screen. Suggest it should appear on "current screen", see above. - Menu Tools>Options: Appears on primary screen. Suggest it should appear on "current screen", see above. - Menu Help>Contents: Appears on primary screen. That could be considered OK. - Menu Help>Support: Appears on primary screen. Suggest it should appear on "current screen", see above. - Menu Help>About OpenOffice.org: This one is different. The popup appears always on the secondary window, even when OO Writer is on the primary window. Hope this helps Bart
reassigend to atr can you please take a look on this issue?
ATR -> SSA: As we discussed on the phone, this is what I can reproduce: - 1. Menu options Window/New... -> win98->rep./win2k->rep. - 2. Menu File>Send>Document as e-mail... problem of mail program?? - 3. Menu Edit>Find and Replace... -> win98->not rep./win2k->rep. - 4. Menu View>Full Screen... -> win98->rep./win2k->not rep. - 5. Menu Format>Character... -> win98->not rep./win2k->rep. - 6. Menu Format>Styles Catalog... -> win98->not rep./win2k->not rep. - 7. Menu Format>Stylist... -> win98->rep./win2k->not rep. - 8. Menu Tools>Data Sources... -> win98->rep./win2k->rep. - 9. Menu Insert>Fields>Other... -> win98->not rep./win2k->not rep. - 10. Menu Tools>Bibliography database... -> win98->rep./win2k->rep. - 11. Menu Tools>Options... -> win98->not rep./win2k->rep. - 12. Menu Help>Contents... -> win98->rep./win2k->rep. - 13. Menu Help>Support... -> win98->rep./win2k->rep. - 14. Menu Help>About OpenOffice.org... -> win98->rep./win2k->rep. I use a matrox g450 at both os.
On - 2. Menu File>Send>Document as e-mail... problem of mail program?? I have to point out a) I used Outlook (the 'pro' version) and that this window only appears (I think) when OOword has to choose between several e-mail packages. Once this is configured I believe OOword may not request it a second time. I have S3 Savage graphics. Should be able to try next week on Win XP with other graph card if that is wanted. Bart
changing issue status to NEW, because SUN developer could reproduce parts of issue.
setting target
SSA: reassign to HDU, please keep in mind that dialogs that were once opened are always restored to the absolute position they formerly had. This is done by SFX. So if you move the application window to another screen, all dialogs will still open on the first screen if they were initially displayed there. Please discuss a better approach with PL.
duplicate *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 3428 ***
Since issue 3428 is supposed to be fixed in SRX643, which was before OOo1.1.5 this probably is not a duplicate.
Adding the issue to my pile.
dualmonitor issue
This happens on Linux too. See: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openoffice.org/+bug/217979
@pl: this issue is probably a duplicate to one of your multi-monitor issues
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