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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jul 24 17:40:16 -0700 2005 ------- I want to confirm this issue. I too have a laptop that I use with a second monitor in the "extended desktop" mode while I am in the office. However, this weekend I had a major project to work on while at home and when I went to set up the printer, no printer window. I discovered the very edge of it on the right hand side of my screen. But I could not get to it because I had only the single laptop LCD and could not fake it out to think their was a second monitor connected to start the "extended desktop" mode and drag it back over. In other programs that I have found to do this (very few), I can resize the screen resolution and it will "pop" those windows back on to the screen. Basically, OOo is not fully dual monitor compatible. It does not reset the x-y location of these windows to be in the active screen if "extended" mode is turned off. To test for the problem, set the second attached monitor at the right hand side in an extended mode (not clone) and use it as the screen for say OOo Writer to be maximized in (Note: most new video drivers will normally maximize an app to one of the screens and this style is causing the problem. Other drivers and option choices will cause apps to maximize across both screens and this setup may not result in this problem since it has not been tested). Use the left hand, laptop LCD as the "tools" screen and have the tools and other OOo windows there. Close OOo, shut down Win XP (may not have to actually shut down system but that is usually what I do in my routine of the work day) and disconnect from the external monitor (this is where I go home). Now start up again, open a document in OOo Writer and try and go to the print options. Depending on what was where in the previous dual monitor mode, it may appear. If so, try some other options windows that you used in the dual monitor mode that appeared in the right hand screen. Several years ago, I had a similar problem occur in an application and the workaround for that at the time was to delete an item in the registry (or maybe it was an INI file) that kept track of the last x-y coordinate of the window. This action caused the window to open in the center of the "active" screen (if in a "extended desktop" it would be the center of the #1 screen) Unfortunatly, my work had to be done in another word processor. If you have any questions on this, please feel free to contact me. I will continue to test this problem and see if I can get a more consistant reproduction of the problem. In a windows environment, this is a item that should be fixed since I will not be able to convince the rest of the admin to switch to OOo if they go home and OOo is not working for them. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
