GNU bug report logs - #21348
25.0.50; Screen scaling factor >=2 causes menus, tooltips to display in the wrong place

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ryan Prior <ryanprior <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 22:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 20619, 22204, 23231, 27357

Found in versions 24.5, 25.0.50, 25.1.50, 26.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at 21348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Ryan Prior <ryanprior <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21348 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21348: 25.0.50;
 Screen scaling factor >=2 causes menus, tooltips
 to display in the	wrong place
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 10:56:32 +0200

>> I'm on Ubuntu 14.04.3 using a Dell XPS 13, which has screen resolution
>> 3200x1800. In order to make the menus large enough to read, the screen
>> is scaled at x2.
>
> What does that mean?  Which pixel coordinates are affected by this,
> and how could Emacs know that?

Via gtk_widget_get_scale_factor, I suppose.

> Sounds like some X API calls lie to us, but it's impossible to fix
> this without knowing which ones.

In any case it will be a pain to fix this :-(

martin
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