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Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases

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JabRef resets window size and position when a dialog occurrs #11668

Open InAnYan opened 3 weeks ago

InAnYan commented 3 weeks ago

JabRef version

5.15 (latest release)

Operating system

Windows

Details on version and operating system

(Linux Mint) Linux 5.15.0-116-generic #126-Ubuntu SMP x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Checked with the latest development build (copy version output from About dialog)

[X] I made a backup of my libraries before testing the latest development version.
[X] I have tested the latest development version and the problem persists

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Whenever a dialog appears, windows settings are reset.

Dialog appearances examples:

Backup of entry found
Runtime exception

Appendix

No response

ryan-carpenter commented 2 days ago

More examples of problematic dialogs include the preferences and merge-entries windows.

Related: https://discourse.jabref.org/t/jabref-always-displaying-full-screen-on-ubuntu-not-in-gnome-windown/4090/11 Workaround: Install javafx23 early access version from https://builds.jabref.org/jdk-ea/

Installing the jdk-ea version linked above or the current development version of JabRef both solved this for me.

JabRef 5.16--2024-09-11--eb98259 Linux 6.9.9-1-default amd64 Java 21.0.2 JavaFX 22.0.2+4