Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 21423
Status bar popup menu's appear off-screen in dual monitor setup.
Last modified: 2004-09-16 12:48:09 UTC
When right-clicking the zoom percentage in the status bar, the popup menu that is supposed to appear, appears below the mousecursor even though this means that 90% of it is drawn off screen. This happens with any popup menu that can be accessed from the status bar. It seems to be caused by my dual-display configuration. OpenOffice.org Writer is maximised on my primary display, but the bottom edge of my secondary display is located to the left and below the bottom edge of the primary. In other words, I've aligned the monitors in the Windows Display controlpanel to appear just like they are on my desk. My primary monitor has a foot for an ergonomical position, while the secondary monitor does not. It seems that OpenOffice looks at the minimal bounding rectangle of the entire desktop when it draws the menu's, even though some parts of that bounding rectangle are off screen. I've tried adjusting my display configuration so that both monitors have their bottom edges aligned, and this fixes the problem. But this is not a solution of course. It appears to happen on all OO.o programs I've tested, which are the writer, the spreadsheet and the presentation program. I haven't been able to try if this has been fixed in the 1.1 release, since the 1.1 RC4 is the latest one available in my language. Some searches on Issuezilla didn't show any mention of this problem. How to reproduce? Simply tell windows that the bottom of your secondary display is located below the primary monitor, maximize an OOo app and right-click on the zoom percentage.
hello MartijnH, thank you for using and supporting OOo. can you please tell us your configution? graphic-card. resolutions etc.? reassigned to jw
Created attachment 10482 [details] The layout of my displays.
Created attachment 10483 [details] A screenshot of the status-bar area when right-clicked. The popup appears too low.
Sure, thanks for working on such a nice suite. :-) I'm using Windows XP (SP1) with a Geforce4 Ti4200. My primary monitor is a 21" CRT running on 1280x960@100Hz and my secondary a 15" CRT running on 1024x768@85Hz. The secondary monitor is to the left of the primary and it's lower edge is lower than the lower edge of the primary. I've attached a screenshot of my Display Properties panel that explains this more clearly (Display Properties.png). I've also attached a screenshot of the status bar as it appears when I right-click on the zoom percentage (problem screenshot.png).
soory i have to set this as wontfix. because the technical efford to fix this would be to much. there are two workarrounds 1. just doubleclick on the zoom option in the bar or change this over view -> zoom
wontfix -> closed
*** Issue 25387 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
closing