indicator menus are misplaced when the display scaler is used

[Timo Aaltonen]

I have a system with a high-res panel, and the recent update to u-s-d makes it scale the login screen. With it though, the indicator menus are misplaced in the greeter.

[Timo Aaltonen (tjaalton)]

misplaced so that the right edge of the menus is aligned with the middle of the screen

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Hey robert, could you have a look to this? It's easy to reproduce, just run unity-greeter with GDK_SCALE=2 (I replaced the binary with a shell script setting the env and calling the rename command to test).

It looks like the coordinates are off by the scale factor for indicators

[Robert Ancell (robert-ancell)]

Can reproduce but haven't worked out which part of the code is doing this. I suspect it's due to us overriding the position of the menubar but it not being aware of this when popup menus are created.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-settings-daemon - 15.04.1+15.04.20150408-0ubuntu1

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unity-settings-daemon (15.04.1+15.04.20150408-0ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * Don't scale under unity-greeter, it creates issues. That can be
    revisited once bug #1286878 and #1434094 are resolved but that's not
    going to be for this cycle (LP: #1434094, #1286878)
 -- CI Train Bot <email address hidden> Wed, 08 Apr 2015 14:46:48 +0000

[William Hua (attente)]

Looks like an upstream GTK+ bug. In the X11 implementation that gets the size of the work area, the screen width and height are divided by the scale factor, but those values are already scaled down. So the screen size is halved again, causing the menus to get pushed into the top-right quadrant of the screen.

[William Hua (attente)]

Top-left I mean...

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the issue was a GTK one and got fixed, closing the unity-greeter side