On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 04:17:12PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:09:10PM +0200, Linux-Fan wrote: > > Roberto C. Sánchez writes: > > > > > I have recently decommissioned my main desktop workstation and switched > > > to using my laptop for daily work (rather than only when travelling). I > > > acquired a USB-C "docking station" and have connected two external > > > monitors (which were formerly attached to my desktop machine). > > > > > > For some strange reason, when there is a Firefox window in the second or > > > third monitor context menus (from right-click) and tooltips do not > > > appear on the same screen as the Firefox window, but rather on the > > > primary monitor (the laptop integrated monitor). I tried searching, but > > > did not find anything recent or useful. Has anyone experienced this > > > same issue? I did not experience this at all on my desktop machine with > > > dual monitors (both the laptop where I am experiencing this and the > > > desktop where I did not experience this are running bullseye), so I am > > > curious if anyone has encountered this issue and if so how to resolve > > > it. > > > > This sounds familiar to me. I think I have observed this behaviour in the > > past albeit never really reproducible. I thought it might be related to > > starting on another screen than the browser is later actually used on, but I > > could not trigger it with some simple tests here. > > > > Back when it appeared I mostly did not bother trying to fix it because for > > me it was only ever temporary in some situations and I could still control > > the rouge menus with the keyboard and avoid moving the mouse cursor all over > > the screens. > > > Thanks, I tend to favor keyboard shortcuts, so this isn't as bad as it > could be for me. > > > Just a datapoint, no solution though :( > > > It's too bad that there is not a straightforward way to pinpoint this. > For those following along, a little while ago the problem "went away". That is, context menus, tooltips, and application menus now all show in the expected places in Firefox. I really hope that this is not a temporary situation and that whatever the problem was has just magically resolved itself. :shrug:
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez