under certain circumstances the emulators from the vice package will start with a window which is much too small. this seems to be somehow related to KDE and GTK, we couldnt quite find out the exact problem. i worked a bit at the problem with upstream, and this is what i recieved: "I switched to KDE and sometimes got a wrong screen size. It happens erratically, sometimes it works and sometimes it shows a window 1 pixel high. And not even switching on then of HW scale restores it to the normal size. I have strong suspects on size_allocate, in x11ui.c. This handles a GTK signal, size-allocate (which would better stay unhandled, IMHO), which sometimes is fired with spurious values. size_allocate changes the size of the window by invoking video_canvas_redraw_size." ... "When a GTK widget needs a particular size (and this is the case of the main screen of the emulator), gtk_widget_set_size_request is called. This makes the widget ask its container for a size. When the container actually acknowledges the size request, it sends a size-allocate signal with the actual size. According to GTK docs, "in some strange cases a widget may be allocated less than its requested size". And this is what sometimes happens when the KDE WM is running: a size-allocate of just 8x1 is sent. The good one is sent, only later. What (unpatched) VICE does is saying: "OK, so I'll request a smaller size". And this causes the small window. If the above description is true, the attached patch should solve the problem." so here is the patch, and it works great for me (and others)
Created attachment 125713 [details, diff] window size patch this patch fixes the problem with wrong window size. it does NOT include the libX11 patch however, so that needs to be applied seperatly aswell.
Is this patch still needed with 1.22?
no, 1.22 doesnt need any of the 1.21 related patches
Thanks!
