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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Ryan Prior <ryanprior@gmail.com>
Cc: 21348@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#21348: 25.0.50; Screen scaling factor >=2 causes menus, tooltips to display in the	wrong place
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 05:48:02 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83bndug3z1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHDL8ocWU1Mgv+rKZxRWoUC5TnZcabGpTuUt4=wVJ6RM69rUfQ@mail.gmail.com>

> From: Ryan Prior <ryanprior@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 17:51:28 -0500
> 
> 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?

> However, at that scale setting, Emacs shows tooltips and menus at an
> offset a few inches down and to the right of the mouse pointer.
> 
> Using the settings panel I can change the scaling factor. If I reduce it
> below 2, for example to 1.88, then Emacs displays menus and tooltips
> where I would expect. At a scale setting equal to or higher than 2x, the
> menus and tooltips are shifted down and to the right.

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





  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-26  2:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-25 22:51 bug#21348: 25.0.50; Screen scaling factor >=2 causes menus, tooltips to display in the wrong place Ryan Prior
2015-08-26  2:48 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-08-26  8:56   ` martin rudalics
2015-08-26 15:33     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-08-26 16:07       ` Glenn Morris
2015-08-27  7:58       ` martin rudalics
2015-08-26  8:56 ` martin rudalics
2015-10-12 21:10 ` bug#21469: " Ryan Prior
2015-10-13 15:51   ` bug#21348: " martin rudalics
2015-10-13 16:34     ` bug#18429: " Ryan Prior
2015-10-13 17:21       ` bug#20619: " martin rudalics
2015-10-13 20:37         ` bug#21348: " Ryan Prior
2015-10-14  8:49           ` martin rudalics

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