0002911: Ardour Window Twitches Around When Performing Mouse Clicks

(0007136)
Chauncellor (reporter)
2009-11-21 17:04

Please excuse the crudity of the picture as a regular screenshot wouldn't capture the problem, but if you notice, Ardour will actually run itself over to the next desktop when maximized.

I would classify this as minor now as it really does disturb my workflow. When I try and click on small objects (such as the faders on the tracks), a lot of times the click will miss because the display was wrong by one pixel.

(0007269)
mrmccrash (reporter)
2009-12-29 09:39

Same issue here - even on a 1280x1024px screen the main window is about 10px too wide. So it keeps flipping back and forth with every click.

When I disable Compiz, the main window could be maximized, but it is offset by about 5px.

(0007307)
Chauncellor (reporter)
2010-01-14 00:27

Adding another screen from an old PPC iBook running Ardour 2.8.2 on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 (XFCE).

(0007376)
Chauncellor (reporter)
2010-02-14 00:31

Seems this is a dupe of bug 0002950:

http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=2950 [^]

(0007377)
Chauncellor (reporter)
2010-02-14 00:36

However, I am using a 1280x1024 monitor. Can we not see the fonts scaled a smidgen by default, as that was the solution to the problem?

(0007386)
paul (administrator)
2010-02-25 09:14

its not *directly* related to font size - it all depends on the real and the reported DPI of your monitor. we've found it more or less impossible to find a way to accurately know how large a given font size will be in pixels, and this is by design - a 10pt font needs to be a different number of pixels depending on the kind of display it is used on (think a small mobile PDA/phone versus a projector).

the default font scaling in ardour is "none" (i.e. we use the natural scaling that the font handling system uses).

Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2009-11-10 11:53	Chauncellor	New Issue
2009-11-10 11:54	Chauncellor	File Added: out.ogv
2009-11-10 18:25	Chauncellor	Issue Monitored: Chauncellor
2009-11-21 17:04	Chauncellor	Note Added: 0007136
2009-11-21 17:04	Chauncellor	File Added: 100_3366.JPG
2009-12-29 09:39	mrmccrash	Note Added: 0007269
2009-12-29 09:43	mrmccrash	File Added: compiz_off.png
2009-12-29 09:43	mrmccrash	Tag Attached: ui
2009-12-29 09:44	mrmccrash	Issue Monitored: mrmccrash
2010-01-07 21:10	Chauncellor	Sponsorship Added	Chauncellor: US$ 10
2010-01-07 21:10	Chauncellor	Sponsorship Total	0 => 10
2010-01-14 00:27	Chauncellor	Note Added: 0007307
2010-01-14 00:27	Chauncellor	File Added: Screenshot.png
2010-02-14 00:31	Chauncellor	Note Added: 0007376
2010-02-14 00:36	Chauncellor	Note Added: 0007377
2010-02-25 09:14	paul	Note Added: 0007386
2010-04-22 05:15	cth103	Relationship added	related to 0003076
2010-04-24 03:28	cth103	Category	bugs => bugs2
2010-04-24 03:29	cth103	Category	bugs2 => bugs

	Users sponsoring this issue
	Sponsors List	Total Sponsorship = US$ 10 2010-01-07 21:10: Chauncellor (US$ 10)

Notes
(0007136) Chauncellor (reporter) 2009-11-21 17:04	Please excuse the crudity of the picture as a regular screenshot wouldn't capture the problem, but if you notice, Ardour will actually run itself over to the next desktop when maximized. I would classify this as minor now as it really does disturb my workflow. When I try and click on small objects (such as the faders on the tracks), a lot of times the click will miss because the display was wrong by one pixel.

(0007269) mrmccrash (reporter) 2009-12-29 09:39	Same issue here - even on a 1280x1024px screen the main window is about 10px too wide. So it keeps flipping back and forth with every click. When I disable Compiz, the main window could be maximized, but it is offset by about 5px.

(0007307) Chauncellor (reporter) 2010-01-14 00:27	Adding another screen from an old PPC iBook running Ardour 2.8.2 on Ubuntu Karmic 9.10 (XFCE).

(0007376) Chauncellor (reporter) 2010-02-14 00:31	Seems this is a dupe of bug 0002950: http://tracker.ardour.org/view.php?id=2950 [^]

(0007377) Chauncellor (reporter) 2010-02-14 00:36	However, I am using a 1280x1024 monitor. Can we not see the fonts scaled a smidgen by default, as that was the solution to the problem?

(0007386) paul (administrator) 2010-02-25 09:14	its not directly related to font size - it all depends on the real and the reported DPI of your monitor. we've found it more or less impossible to find a way to accurately know how large a given font size will be in pixels, and this is by design - a 10pt font needs to be a different number of pixels depending on the kind of display it is used on (think a small mobile PDA/phone versus a projector). the default font scaling in ardour is "none" (i.e. we use the natural scaling that the font handling system uses).