Bug#977977: libreoffice: a large part of the window appears off-screen
On 2020-12-23 20:48:33 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Am 23.12.20 um 20:34 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> > On 2020-12-23 19:53:09 +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> >> Am 23.12.20 um 18:59 schrieb Vincent Lefevre:
> >>> A large part of the window appears off-screen, including the menu
> >>> and window controls. Basically, the only thing I can do is to type
> >>> Ctrl-Q to quit Libreoffice!
> >> And why is that? Obviously works on one-monitor setups.
> > My machine is a laptop, sometimes with only its screen, sometimes
> > with 2 external 4K monitors, depending on where I am.
> Aha. I have none of these. (Besides that my laptop has a sane graphics
> card.)
> >> And given you apparently use the nvidia driver (see below).... No way to
> >> reproduce this here.
> > The nouveau driver is unusable with an external monitor (even when
> > used in mirror mode). The nvidia driver is the only solution with
> > such a configuration.
>
> In Germany we have an idiom amongst IT people: "Augen auf beim
> Hardwarekauf" (which roughly translates to
>
> "open your eyes when buying hardware"). You got into this situation
> yourself.
This was what I did when buying my laptop 5 years ago, but couldn't
find any reliable information (and obviously it wasn't possible to
test with future additional hardware and future Linux kernels).
And it now seems that nouveau information has been removed from the
Debian wiki, which is in some mess, e.g. section
https://wiki.debian.org/GraphicsCard#nVidia_and_nouveau
just provides a link to NvidiaGraphicsDrivers, which says "This page
describes how to install the NVIDIA proprietary display driver on
Debian systems."
> > I did not set anything special. I rarely use LibreOffice (only when I
> > need to). And I don't think I have ever changed anything explicitly in
> > the preferences. In short, I let LibreOffice handle the config on its
> > own.
>
> OK, but I believe it saves it's dimensions when closed, I at laest get
> this when williy-nilly dragging the window.
>
> It probably also saves the location..
>
>
> This would explain your problem. I don't think there is a senseful way
> to fix this though.
I would have thought that in such a case, it would also save the
screen dimensions (or save the window position/size in percentages).
This is rather obvious to me.
If I run and quit LibreOffice several times with manually moving the
window, then after a few times, it becomes partly off-screen (there's
the same issue for some other applications).
> In any case, this is something for upstream - not Debian to change. And
> for that there's reportbug mentioning that upstream bugs should go upstream.
I'll have a look.
> > That's the default for unstable, except that I added experimental.
>
> No, it's not.
>
> Adding stable and testing is not. (unstable-debug is understandable, but
> also not default.)
IIRC, it was the default or needed or recommended many years ago.
At least for testing. And concerning stable, I can see in my logs,
from 2005:
* Added the stable distribution since the version of a package
in stable may be more recent than the version in testing (in
particular during a freeze).
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