TB Window management horrors

[salmonsnake]

I've been humming along nicely with TB for years. Then 5.0 came along.
Now, I sometimes unpredictably cannot tell if another window will pop
up when I try to do something like a) reply to an email, b) create a
new calendar event, c) New task. I can see that these windows are
supposed to exist by going to the "Window" Pull down choices. The
severity of this bug is such a SHOWSTOPPER. I don't know how many
others are affected but if it is just 1/10 of 1%, that is already too
many people affected.

Haven't found a way to workaround the problem. I tried turning off
various "Add-ons" to see if there was a bad interaction. No luck thus
far in pinning down the problem.

[salmonsnake]

> Haven't found a way to workaround the problem. I tried turning off
> various "Add-ons" to see if there was a bad interaction. No luck thus
> far in pinning down the problem.

Found a workaround:

Symptom: TB 5.0 will not open a new window when doing very common
tasks such as replying to an email or creating a calendar event.
There is evidence that the new window should exist if you go to the
"Window" pull-down window. You can see that the window that was
supposed to be there even tho' in reality it is not.

Workaround:
In the "Help" pull-down menu, Select "Restart with Ad-ons Disabled".
You will then be promoted for other customizations such
as "Disable Add-ons". You only need t o check the box for "Restart TB
in Safe mode". Then TB works.

[salmonsnake]

Found a practical working workaround:

Symptom:
TB 5.0 refuses to open a new window for actions such as replying to an
email or opening an existing calendar event.

Problem:
TB new window manager gets confused about which virtual screen
the TB "Main and Newsgroups" window is currently located. When a
new pop-up window is required, the window is never rendered. However,
evidence of the invisible window(s) can be seen by going to the
"Window"
pull-down window. There, you will see all the windows that were
created
but never rendered.

Workaround:
Simply move the "Main and Newsgroups" window from its current virtual
window to another virtual screen. In my case, I used my mouse to drag
the window from my laptop screen over to my external monitor's screen.

Yeah, TB is useful once again.