Issue 82795 - Paragraph style dialog appears offscreen
Summary: Paragraph style dialog appears offscreen
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of issue 42282
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.3
Hardware: All Windows XP
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: jack.warchold
QA Contact: issues@sw
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: 100239 (view as issue list)
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Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-10-19 17:04 UTC by ahadsell
Modified: 2010-02-08 11:31 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
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Description ahadsell 2007-10-19 17:04:13 UTC 
I ran OOo writer on a machine with two displays, and positioned the paragraph
style dialog on the second display.  Later, I ran without the second display. 
When I opened the paragraph style dialog, it was positioned offscreen, and
invisible.  I was only able to "find" and reposition it by reconnecting the
second display.

The dialog should check if it is being positioned offscreen, and move back to a
visible location if it is.
Comment 1 ahadsell 2007-10-20 19:50:26 UTC 
Same issue occurs with the Numbering/Bullets dialog.
Comment 2 michael.ruess 2007-10-23 15:53:53 UTC 
JW, could you please have a look on this "dual-head" issue? Thanks!
Comment 3 jack.warchold 2007-10-23 16:18:04 UTC 
Hello ahadsell
because this is a technikal issue too, i have to ask you some questions.
first the type of your graficcard.
second what do you exactly mean with "Later, I ran without the second display."
have you just pluged off the monitor or did you disabled the dualmonitor support in 
the Operating system too?
if you did not disable the dualmonitor support this is not a bug, because OOo can 
not know that there is no second monitor connected. For the OS (and because it 
needs the information from the OS the following will count for OOo too) there are 
still two monitors and the deskttop will be extended over the two screens wether 
the second is pluged off or turned off or not.

if you have disabled the dualmonitor support and your scenario still is valid this will 
be a bug of OOo.
Comment 4 ahadsell 2007-10-23 16:27:52 UTC 
The graphics card is an ATI Mobility Fire GL 9000, built into an IBM Thinkpad
T40p laptop.  

When I ran without the second display, I had turned off the OS support for the
second monitor, by unchecking "Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor" on
the "Settings" tab of the Display Properties dialog in Windows XP.
Comment 5 jack.warchold 2007-10-23 16:39:43 UTC 
hi ahadsell

thanks for your quick answer, i will try to reproduce this here.
Comment 6 sakaal 2008-06-21 05:15:38 UTC 
This is probably a duplicate of 46549.
Comment 7 pelanpelan 2008-07-30 13:08:32 UTC 
I have an ASUS laptop with Vista and run into the same problem.
I check all sorts of dialogs in writer - format, they all have the same problem.
You just get a load bang from Vista and writer seems to hang for ever.
When I disconnect the second screen or reboot the laptop without the second
screen the second screen is indeed disabled in the OS.
For laptop use this is a very troublesome issue, as by nature one doesn't have a
second screen when mobile.
It is sometimes even embarassing when, in a meeting, one doesn't seem to be able
to handle a simple windows PC.
Comment 8 michael.ruess 2009-03-16 16:56:10 UTC 
*** Issue 100239 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 9 michael.ruess 2010-02-08 11:28:33 UTC 
Does not only refer to paragraph dialog. Same root cause as issue 42282.

*** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 42282 ***
Comment 10 michael.ruess 2010-02-08 11:31:16 UTC 
Closing duplicate.