The menus that display when clicking on various items in the mode line (major mode, minor mode, buffer position) don't display correctly with certain monitor setups on X, specifically when using multiple monitors where the bottoms of the monitors are not even. They appear squished and are effectively unusable. FWIW, a similar issue appeared with the mode line tooltips that displayed when hovering over these items in Emacs 24.5, but they have since been fixed. The menu bar menus do not suffer this problem. When running from the command line, the following message usually appears: *** BUG *** In pixman_region32_init_rect: Invalid rectangle passed Set a breakpoint on '_pixman_log_error' to debug I tried to debug this in gdb, but setting the breakpoint made X hang when encountering this issue, so I was unable to procure a backtrace. I have attached a picture showing the problem. The static displayed is the area that I am unable to see, but is included by scrot. The squished prompt was from clicking on `Lisp Interaction' in the mode line.