Bug 100696 - UI: Pop-up menu partly hidden by Windows taskbar
Summary: UI: Pop-up menu partly hidden by Windows taskbar
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 90871
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: UI (show other bugs)
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(earliest affected)
unspecified
Hardware: All Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Reported: 2016-06-30 13:09 UTC by Lars Jødal
Modified: 2016-07-18 09:11 UTC (History)
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Screen shot showing low-positioned pop-up menu partly covered by Windows 10 taskbar (10.18 KB, image/png)
2016-06-30 13:09 UTC, Lars Jødal
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Description Lars Jødal 2016-06-30 13:09:41 UTC
Created attachment 126005 [details]
Screen shot showing low-positioned pop-up menu partly covered by Windows 10 taskbar

Using LO version 5.1.3.2 in Windows 10 I regularly have the following problem:

The pop-up menus from right-clicking seem to be oriented by the bottom of the screen, not the border of the Windows taskbar. This makes the lower options of the menu inaccessible. An screenshot example is shown in the attachment.

To reproduce: Use Writer on Windows (10?). Write a text containing a word with many synonyms, e.g. "necessarily". Make sure that this word is close to the bottom of the screen, and right-click to get pop-up menu. If the list of synonyms is long enough, it will extend down "behind" the windows taskbar.

Suggested solution: Positioning of the menu should consider the area behind the taskbar as inaccessible.

The problem may be the "hanging" menu (correct term?), not the pop-up menu itself. Experiments with very long regular menus, line "File" in Writer, seem to indicate that the regular menu system is aware that the taskbar area cannot be used, but "hanging" menus are not necessarily aware of this. Try making the Writer window as low as possible and choose "Format > Rotate".

The problem is not restricted to Writer or the specific examples, but may be specific for Windows 10. Opening a photo in Windows 10 also sometimes show the lowest part of the photo behind the taskbar.
Comment 1 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2016-07-02 07:42:34 UTC
In case you’re using multiple monitors, this could be a duplicate of bug 93466 or bug 90871.
Comment 2 Lars Jødal 2016-07-06 14:14:15 UTC
Yes, it seems like bug 90871 and bug 93466 are related to this one. The description in these reports are somewhat different, but the behaviour of a popup menu hiding behind the Windows taskbar is similar.

Yes, the problem may be restricted to using multiple monitors! I am using two monitors (both of the same size, 1920 x 1080 pixels), but if I disconnect one of them from the computer, I seem to be unable to reproduce the bug. 

The bug may seem harder to reproduce than my original report suggested, but if I adjust the Windows taskbar to double height, it is easier. Probably because this gives a broader interval between the bottom of the screen and the bottom of the desktop above the taskbar. I have never seen the popup menu extending further down than the bottom of the screen, only further down than the top of the taskbar.

Systems: I have now also seen the bug with Windows 7. That system also had two monitors (of different size), and disconnecting one of the monitors, I was unable to reproduce the bug!
Comment 3 Buovjaga 2016-07-18 09:11:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 90871 ***