GNU bug report logs - #31880
26.1; VC mode line popup when clicked is off screen

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Brian Zwahr <echosa <at> echosa.net>

Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:00:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.1

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #64 received at 31880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
To: João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com>
Cc: martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at>, Brian Zwahr <echosa <at> echosa.net>,
 31880 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31880: 26.1; VC mode line popup when clicked is off screen
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2018 11:56:56 +0200

João Távora <joaotavora <at> gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2018, 08:33 martin rudalics <rudalics <at> gmx.at> wrote:
>
>>  > FWIW, I have a very similar same problem with the Lucid toolkit, and not
>>  > just for the VC popup: for all but the shortest popups it extends off
>>  > the usable area of the screen, to the bottom.
>>
>> On a high resolution display?
>
>
> On a normal display.
>
>>
>
> Can you try building without toolkit
>> support?
>>
>
> I'm confused, sorry.  You mean without X? Or with something else other than
> lucid?

Martin means

./configure --with-x-toolkit=no

which I think means we only do direct XLib calls.

Iʼve tried both that and --with-x-toolkit=lucid and see no problems
with popup menu positioning.

Regards

Robert
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