https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368158
Bug ID: 368158
Summary: System Activity dialog always appears offscreen
Product: ksysguard
Version: 5.7.3
Platform: Fedora RPMs
OS: other
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: ksysguard-b...@kde.org
Reporter: ti...@math.uh.edu
I have a non-rectangular desktop. It has three monitors arranged in a square
with no monitor in the upper left hand corner.
When I open the "System Activity" dialog, either with Shift-Escape or by
running "systemmonitor" from the command line, the dialog will always (and I
really do mean 100% of the time) open in the place where I have no monitor. I
can click on the entry in the taskbar, navigate down to the Move option and
drag the window onscreen to see it.
I tried setting up a kwin rule to ignore the initial placement for that window
(and always put it under the mouse, or on the primary monitor, or something)
but I can't seem to get that to work for whatever reason.
This isn't the only window that usually opens offscreen, of course. Generally,
though, it's just transient dialogs that do it. While a kwin option to prevent
things from opening offscreen would probably be a good idea, I figured I'd file
file a ticket against each individual application I run across. Absolute
positioning is generally a bad idea unless you're just restoring the last
position where the dialog was closed, but if you're going to do it, at least
clamp to the active portion of the desktop and not just to the bounding
rectangle.
Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have a weird non-rectangular desktop, with no monitor in the upper left-hand
portion.
2. Open the system activity dialog.
3. Notice that you can't see said dialog because it opened offscreen.
Actual Results:
Dialog opens where there's no monitor to display it.
Expected Results:
Dialog opens someplace where a monitor exists to display it.
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