Bug 62909 - FORMATTING: Context Pop-Up Window Location
Summary: FORMATTING: Context Pop-Up Window Location
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.0.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
: low minor
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Blocks: Multimonitor
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Reported: 2013-03-29 15:54 UTC by John
Modified: 2025-05-17 18:53 UTC (History)
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Description John 2013-03-29 15:54:14 UTC 
Problem description: 

selecting any option that spawns a pop-up context menu on a dual-monitor workstation can sometimes open the menu on the other monitor, depending on the last window location of a closed spreadsheet

Steps to reproduce:
** must have 2 or more monitors **

1. open a spreadsheet with a date column on monitor 1
2. select the entire column 
3. right-click
4. select "Format Cells"
5. make a formatting selection and close pop-up
6. move spreadsheet to monitor 2
7. repeat step 3

Current behavior:

uses the last window location of the calc program where it was last closed to calculate the position for the new pop-up window

Expected behavior:

should use the current window position of the active calc program to calculate the position of the new pop-up window
              
Operating System: All
Version: 4.0.1.2 release
Comment 1 Joel Madero 2014-05-05 03:29:59 UTC 
Thank you for reporting this issue! I have been able to confirm the issue on:
Version: 4.3.0.0.alpha0
Date:   Thu Apr 24 21:43:16 2014 +0300
Platform :Ubuntu 14.04
DE: GNOME3

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As I've been able to confirm this problem I am marking as:

New (confirmed)
Minor - a bit annoying but really not a big deal, can possibly slow down work a little but once you figure out what's going on it's easy to deal with 
Low - default seems appropriate

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Comment 7 Dominick 2025-05-17 18:53:15 UTC 
I was not able to reproduce the issue in 25.8. The position of the format cells pop up window opened up on the same monitor as Calc. This was tested on both of my monitors.

Additional Information:
Version: 25.8.0.0.alpha0+ (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: 923da8a3855afae1f3f3a5f50d1fec08bbc02438
CPU threads: 24; OS: Windows 11 X86_64 (build 26100); UI render: Skia/Vulkan; VCL: win
Locale: en-US (en_US); UI: en-US
Calc: CL threaded