Bug 598992 - firefox appears on "correct" monitor/head then moves to "wrong" head (dual-head conf.)
Summary: firefox appears on "correct" monitor/head then moves to "wrong" head (dual-he...
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 13
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-06-02 13:54 UTC by David Mansfield
Modified: 2011-06-27 17:20 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-06-27 17:20:39 UTC
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Description David Mansfield 2010-06-02 13:54:43 UTC
Description of problem:
In Fedora 12, when opening firefox, it would correctly map to the head where it "should" go. I don't have F12 anymore, so I can't elaborate, but certainly that means at least: when restarting (due to adding add-on) it should re-map to the same head.

In F13, it briefly appears in the "right" head (secondary, in my case), then moves itself (or is moved by metacity, perhaps), to the primary head and needs to be dragged back over.

I'm not sure if this applies to other applications, but a brief check of openoffice, gcalctool and others seems to indicate it's firefox only.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-3.6.3-4.fc13.x86_64
metacity-2.30.0-2.fc13.x86_64
xorg-x11-server 1.8.0-12.fc13 
ATI Technologies Inc RV620 LE [Radeon HD 3450]

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. move firefox to secondary head
2. maximize (not sure if necessary)
3. install add-on and click "restart" (or just close and re-launch)
  
Actual results:
appears on correct head for a fraction of a second and moves to wrong head

Expected results:
stays put

Additional info:
none

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2011-06-02 12:21:24 UTC
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Comment 2 David Mansfield 2011-06-02 14:04:55 UTC
this still happens in fedora 14 at least.  haven't tested fedora 15 yet.

Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2011-06-27 17:20:39 UTC
Fedora 13 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2011-06-25. Fedora 13 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
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