Subject: Notification: incoming/1580

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Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:40:37 -0600 (CST)

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new message incoming/1580

Message summary for PR#1580
	From: [email-masked]
	Subject: Qt opens popups at off-screen coordinates
	Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:40:14 -0600
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>From [email-masked] Sun Jan 30 03:40:15 2005
Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2005 03:40:14 -0600
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Subject: Qt opens popups at off-screen coordinates

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Version: 2.5.10
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Submission from: (NULL) (62.209.219.66)

Qt-based applications that open modal popup dialogs will become unusable
with some window managers (fvwm2, WindowMaker) because those popups will be
placed at off-screen coordinates - outside the visible area of the screen.

Some window managers (e.g. fvwm2) will make that window visible upon
Alt-Tab, some (WindowMaker) will not. Anyway, from a user's point of view
this application is dead. This is especially bad since this will happen
very often (every time?) you get a dependency problem window during
installation. At least on 64 bit architectures this seems to be reliably
reproducable.

* How to reproduce:
  
Start the "widgets" example from the Qt examples. Open a file selection box
- 
select "Open" from the "File" menu. 
 
Use different window managers - fvwm2, WindowMaker. KWin seems to move that

window to some other location all by itself, so the problem does not appear

there. 
 
Observed at 64 bit platforms.

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