When i put my notebook into the docking station i run the script

$ xrandr --output HDMI1 --mode 1680x1050
$ xrandr --output LVDS1 --off

to switch of the internal monitor and turn on the external one. This
also changes the screen resolution from 1280x800 to the above larger one.

Afterwards, the popup messages indicating new emails in kmail, or those
from kopete appear about in the middle of the screen, not above the
"i" information thing in the taskbar where they seem to originate from.

It seems somehow the popups fail to notice the changed resolution.

This happens a reproducibly, e.g. whenever i go online in kopete and it
tells me how many mails i have in hotmail.

I also noticed that its possible to drag the popup to a different position,
and it will keep appearing there then, so maybe this is feature, not a bug?

Best regards
Johannes