Bug 1182674 - qt menus display wrongly or not at all on multiscreen display
Summary: qt menus display wrongly or not at all on multiscreen display
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: WindowMaker
Version: 22
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
unspecified
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andreas Bierfert
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-01-15 17:01 UTC by Toby Goodwin
Modified: 2019-01-09 10:48 UTC (History)
14 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-02-29 13:52:55 UTC
Type: Bug
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Screenshot show erroneous full-height menu (1.92 MB, image/png)
2015-01-15 17:01 UTC, Toby Goodwin
no flags Details

Description Toby Goodwin 2015-01-15 17:01:51 UTC
Created attachment 980572 [details]
Screenshot show erroneous full-height menu

Description of problem:

Using qt applications, including clementine (bundled) and bitcoin-qt (binary download) on a multi-screen display (laptop plus big monitor), pull-down menus sometimes take the full height of the screen. It's quite random: usually sliding to another menu and back fixes it.

Other times the menus don't display at all; this failure mode seems to be 100% reproducible if I have my big monitor plugged in, and the application is displaying to my laptop screen.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Up-to-date Fedora 21 install: qt is at qt-4.8.6-18.fc21.x86_64

How reproducible:
Most of the time

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a qt application
2. Click on a drop-down menu

Actual results:
Menu takes up full height of display. See attachment.

Expected results:
Menu takes up only as much space as it needs.

Additional info:
Toshiba Portege R700-1DF

[root@rocinante ~]# lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)

Comment 1 Eric Vought 2015-07-23 02:26:46 UTC
I am getting this same issue under Fedora 20. It occurs with qt applications (e.g. calibre, qgis, nixnote) under Gnome. I have multi-monitor display with an HDMI tv as the secondary monitor (1920x1080 vs primary display 1024x768).

Symptoms:

* Menu issues as describe above: menus will not post at all on primary display and will take up full height on secondary display and in the wrong horizontal position; need to 'sneak up on' menus to actually use them as trying to move to a menu item will often trip a different menu. Happens predictably, 100% of the time.

* The Qt applications will often start on the secondary display (which is often powered off and it looks like the application did not start).

* Even after application is moved to primary display, dialogs will often post to secondary display (which again, when display is off, looks like application froze).

$ lspci |grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK104 [GeForce GTX 760 OEM] (rev a1)

qt is 4.8.6 release 30.

If I go to Display Settings and Turn Off the secondary display, menus will post on the primary display, usually correctly, only occasionally going full height.

Comment 2 Michael Stahl 2015-07-23 12:08:33 UTC
running gnome-shell, i'm seeing menu issues on a secondary screen
with all Qt based applications i tried, both in Fedora 21 and Fedora 22,
and in earlier releases too: QtCreator (using Qt 5),
KDevelop 4.7 (using Qt 4), K3B.

usually this means the menus pop up not below the menu bar but vertically
in the middle of the secondary screen, where the "top" edge of the primary
screen would be.  i've seen menus not pop up anywhere visible at all too.

workaround for me is to use the Gnome Settings Display config to
move the secondary screen such that its top edge is lower than the
top edge of the primary screen.

the problematic screen configuration looks like the reporter's attached screenshot.

GTK+2/3 applications have no problems with this setup.

Comment 3 Michael Stahl 2015-07-23 12:14:22 UTC
forgot to mention: i'm using this screen configuration with top edge
of secondary screen above top edge of primary screen because it makes
the top-left corner of the secondary screen "active" so that
moving the pointer there brings up gnome-shell's overhead view.

if the secondary screen top edge is lower then that doesn't work
as the pointer moves to the primary screen.

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Comment 6 Jiri Kastner 2016-02-09 14:22:53 UTC
sp flash tool for linux x86_64 (tool for re-flashing devices with mediatek soc)

also goldendict has missing menus when i have connected monitor.
when running on laptop without monitor i have menus available and clicable.

this is how lightdm setup screen.
i use windowmaker.
 
[indy@dhcp-10-40-0-152 ~]$ cat /etc/lightdm/display_setup.sh
# xrandr --setprovideroutputsource modesetting NVIDIA-0
xrandr --auto
xrandr  --output DP2-2 --right-of eDP1

Comment 7 Jiri Kastner 2016-02-11 14:58:52 UTC
update:

when i move/start application (see comment above) to/on eDP1 (laptop's primary display) i have menus, when i move or start application on 2nd display, menus disappear. after moving back to primary display menu 're-appears'.
even this is workaround, should be nice to have it fixed.

Comment 8 Jiri Kastner 2016-02-15 14:43:15 UTC
update v2:
after update to WindowMaker 0.95.7 problem disappeared.
in windowmaker is:

"wmaker: Restore multi screen functionality by reverting wrong commits"

which probably resolved problem.

Comment 9 Rex Dieter 2016-02-15 14:47:01 UTC
So fixed by WindowMaker update

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-7cc4eebd4a

?

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2016-02-15 14:49:35 UTC
WindowMaker-0.95.7-1.fc22 wmweather+-2.15-4.fc22 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 22. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2015-7cc4eebd4a

Comment 11 Toby Goodwin 2016-02-29 13:52:55 UTC
bugzilla asked me to comment on this bug

unfortunately i don't still have an F22 system handy to test on, as everything got upgraded to F23.

I can confirm that I haven't seen this problem for a long time, so it must have been fixed either by F23 or a published update.

Closing this bug now.

Thanks to those involved in fixing for your efforts!


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