tutorials start off screen with multiple monitors - windows 7
Bug #555253 reported by
jazzynico
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Inkscape |
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Undecided
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Bug Description
[Based on question #104751, by AJ]
OS: Windows 7 64 bit
(3) monitors (laptop screen + 2 external screens)
Start Inkscape
Select any tutorial from Help/Tutorials/
The tutorial does not appear to open, yet when you check Windows 7 taskbar, you can see the thumbnail.
As a workaround:
close inkscape , and close the tutorial by clicking the x on the taskbar's thumbnail
revert to single screen
open up inkscape
open up the tutorial from the menu help/tutorials
I have a very similar problem except that part of the Tutorial window is initially visible on the secondary monitor screen to which is it moved (after having been automatically repositioned and resized). I expect that it is the same error, but that our monitors have different resolutions.
More information about my system which should assist you in diagnosing the problem:
OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit; Service Pack 1
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual Core Processor 5000+ 2.6 GHz (this is prob. not important)
RAM: 4 GB
DirectX runtime version: 11
GPU: GeFORCE 8600 GT; driver version 275.33
Display settings:
I have two monitors on my desktop system. The smaller monitor with lower resolution appears to the *left* of my larger primary monitor. Going from left to right, my monitors are numbered (2)(1). My primary (rightmost) monitor has a resolution of 1920 x 1200, while my secondary (leftmost) monitor has a resolution of only 1280 x 768. The secondary monitor is positioned such that the bottoms of the two monitors coincide - not the tops. Therefore the top of my secondary monitor is some 432 pixels below that of my primary monitor. This is the source of the repositioning error. [Ostensibly your code assumes that the secondary monitor must have its upper, left pixel at (0, 0), whereas mine is at (0, 432), or more likely, (-1280, 432). The original laptop owner may have his smaller laptop screen perched between two (much) larger desktop monitors for similar effect.] See the attachment for pictorial clarification.
Workaround:
I drag the right side of the tutorial window far enough that it reaches onto my primary screen. From there I have access to the titlebar which I use to reposition the window so that it fits completely onto either of the two screens.