From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: When I bring up various dialog boxes, they are placed in close proximity to the mouse, frequently with part of the box off screen at the bottom. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: (this is just one example; others do this too, but this is the worst I've seen) 1. Right click the panel 2. Click 'Add to panel' ... 'Launcher...' Actual Results: Dialog box is mostly off screen at the bottom. Has to be moved to use it. Expected Results: Dialog box entirely visible. Additional info: I hope this isn't a duplicate (seems pretty easy to spot); I tried about 6 different searches. ;-)
I think the Launcher dialog is a panel problem. Let me know about other specific dialogs.
OK, I tested this also w/ 'Dia', which is why I originally filed against metacity: - Open 'dia' - Drag dia to bottom of screen (partially off screen), such that clicking the file menu still (but just barely) puts the menu below (instead of flipping it up) - Click 'File'...'Open' The 'Ok' & 'Cancel' buttons are buried in the panel. I tried 'gnome-mines', too: - Drag gnome-mines mostly off-screen at bottom - Click 'Settings'...'Preferences' Dialog is mostly off screen. Essentially, any time there's a dialog that pops up 'close to the mouse', it might be off screen on the bottom if the mouse happens to be near the bottom. The Panel - Launcher example is just the most common occurence.
Right, but metacity can't really do anything about it if apps are dumb and insist their dialog should be there. Since there's a spec that says you have to do what apps say. Need to track down and destroy these app bugs.
Ok, agreed; so this is just a panel bug that should be fixed. I don't think it's worth bothering with the others at this point, since you have to go out of your way to trigger them.
2.0.6-6 gnome-panel should fix this. dialogs probably come up centered now.
The menu flip-up issue is resolved with gnome-panel-2.0.6-9, but the dialog box for gnome-mines still comes up off screen. A couple of others apps come up off-screen as well, but the majority of them are centered, so closing out.