Launcher opens too low (goes off screen)

Drag the launcher up. Easy as that.

Is this still a concern in the current Minecraft Launcher version 2.0.805 / 2.0.806? If so, please update the affected versions in order to best aid Mojang ensuring bugs are still valid in the latest releases/pre-releases. If this has been done, we can reopen the issue.

Keep in mind that the "Resolved"-Status on this ticket just means "Answered", and that we are waiting for further information on whether this issue still exists or not. It will be reopened it as soon as the requested information has been delivered.

The launcher I have is 1.6.73-j, bootstrap v5.

The startup behavior is that a window is opened to log the startup and self update. That window is centered. This is (presumably) bootstrap v5.

Then, the main launcher itself starts up. It takes the existing window, and resizes (bigger), without moving/recentering.

2.0.805/806? I do not have that one.

Ok, there are three launchers available on Minecraft.net.

"minecraft.jar" turns out to be the same v5 bootsrap.
"minecraft_legacy.dmg" contains the same Minecraft.app that I have.

minecraft.dmg contains ... wow. The background image looks like it came from an old, legacy macintosh OS. Classic looking.

WOW. The old launcher weighs in at 507 KB. The new one weighs in at 336 MB. ... Chromium framework, and the x-64 jre. Jre I can understand – they want to make sure you are using J8 now, but why Chromium?

... Ok, first, this new "welcome" page looks like a badly designed web page 🙂. Second, those new solid color building blocks in the 1.12 snapshots don't look like colored wool or colored clay (the white is actually white, without the wool stains, or the clay pink tint.)

... OH GOD NO THOSE ARE HORRIBLE SETTINGS! The new launcher is actually specifying CMS garbage collection by default with only 128 MB of "new" memory. CMS wants a LOT more than that to be happy, and that's before the BlockPos object churn.

UGH, this is bug-report worthy. If I click on the sample skins (alex or steve), I get a file browser, looking for alex.png or steve.png, pointing to the contents directory of the app bundle. Not the skin.

Actually trying to select a profile from the list? It's harder to work with that list; you can't use the keyboard to find something; it's not alphabetical; it's not sorted by date used, or minecraft version, or anything I can decipher; you can't use the up/down arrow to scroll through it (mouse only),

Ok, next big bug. The program output window: Cannot scroll. The scrollbar is locked in the middle of the output. Two-finger swipe does not scroll, click-and-drag on the scroll button does not scroll, click in the scroll bar itself does not scroll.

All in all? I'll go back to the legacy launcher, this new one was not designed by people who actually use it.

OH COME ON MOJANG!

"It looks like you've used a newer launcher than this one! If you go back to using this one, we will need to reset your configuration."

And the choice is "I'm sure. Reset my settings."

All of my profiles, gone? All of my forge install settings, gone???

WHAT THE ACTUAL FRACK? (Frack, as in, pumping water into the ground like a James Bond villain to make earthquakes and get rich)

You didn't tell anything about this ticket "Launcher opens too low".

Ok.

The new Mac-specific launcher does not open too low.
However, it has enough issues that it is unusable for me.

And, the generic launcher for use on Linux and other systems is the same (older Mac) launcher that reuses a window and does not re-position it after resizing it.