From: "João Távora" <joaotavora@gmail.com>
To: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
Cc: Brian Zwahr <echosa@echosa.net>, 31880@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#31880: 26.1; VC mode line popup when clicked is off screen
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:33:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bmbzm9zz.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5B28ADFC.4060704@gmx.at> (martin rudalics's message of "Tue, 19 Jun 2018 09:17:16 +0200")
martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at> writes:
>> When I use Emacs via the GUI and I maximize the window, clicking on a
>> git branch in the mode line of a buffer produces the actions popup, but
>> it is unusable because it is either squished at the bottom of the screen
>> or it extends off the buttom of the screen. If I make the Emacs frame
>> smaller so that the bottom of the frame is not at the bottom of the
>> screen, then I get a usable scrollable list of VC actions when I click
>> the git branch information in the mode line.
>>
>> It seems like this popup always popups up below/beneath/downward of the
>> Emacs frame. Instead, if the bottom of the frame is at the bottom of the
>> screen (or close to it even, maybe?), then the VC popup should display
>> above/upwards.
>>
>>
>> In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30)
>> of 2018-05-29 built on lcy01-amd64-029
>> Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
>> System Description: Pop!_OS 18.04 LTS
>
> Thank you for your report. Similar problems have been mentioned in
> bugs 24084, 25064, 26130, 26855 and 27131, most of them for Emacs 25
> and GTK 3.22.
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.
> Can you see related GTK error messages when running
> Emacs from a console? Are you using multiple monitors, a high
> resolution display or any other peculiar configuration that has been
> mentioned in those reports?
I don't see any in the console.
João
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-25 10:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-18 14:59 bug#31880: 26.1; VC mode line popup when clicked is off screen Brian Zwahr
2018-06-19 7:17 ` martin rudalics
[not found] ` <380133793885a54af49bbc8715cfea4ced525342.camel@echosa.net>
2018-06-20 7:42 ` martin rudalics
2018-06-20 9:52 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-20 11:55 ` martin rudalics
2018-06-20 14:31 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-20 20:15 ` Brian Zwahr
2018-06-21 8:08 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-21 14:41 ` Brian Zwahr
2018-06-21 15:05 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-21 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-22 8:04 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-22 8:56 ` martin rudalics
2018-06-21 7:15 ` martin rudalics
2018-06-21 8:31 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-21 8:56 ` martin rudalics
2018-06-25 10:33 ` João Távora [this message]
2018-06-27 7:33 ` martin rudalics
2018-06-27 8:24 ` João Távora
2018-06-27 9:56 ` Robert Pluim
2018-06-27 11:16 ` João Távora
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