Help panes cut off at the bottom of the screen

[Yannik]

The help panes are cut off at the bottom of the screen and it is not possible to scroll them.

Example:

This seems to be the case for all help panes which are long enough to extend to the bottom of the screen.

[zagortenay333]

Are you sure that they are cut off? You can scroll but the scrollbar is invisible until you hover over the popup.

[Yannik]

@zagortenay333 Yes, it is impossible to scroll. Also, no matter where I move the mouse, a scroll bar is not showing up.

[zagortenay333]

Ahh shoot. I can't reproduce this on my machine...

Screencast from 2023-06-06 12-17-30.webm

[zagortenay333]

Not sure how to tackle this...

[Yannik]

Here is a screen recording of the issue: Screencast from 2023-06-06 12-21-21.webm

Unfortunately you can't see my mouse, but I am moving it all over the pane and trying to scroll, but nothing happens.

[zagortenay333]

Could you try typing this in the gnome shell console (one line at a time):

Main.layoutManager.findIndexForActor(global.stage)
Main.layoutManager.getWorkAreaForMonitor(r(0)).height

You get the console by pressing alt-f2 then lg.

Does it report roughly the height of your monitor?

[Yannik]

The first return value is 0, and the second one is 2096.

This is on a 3840x2160 screen with 200% scaling.

[zagortenay333]

Hmmm. Can you see if the problem happens when you are at 100% scaling?

[Yannik]

At 100% scaling the dpi is so high that the whole box fits on the screen.

[zagortenay333]

Can you change your resolution in the gnome settings to something smaller so that it doesn't fit. Modern software debugging right here! :D so sad...

[Yannik]

Yep, halving the resolution and setting scaling to 100% does indeed result in sucessful scrolling. The output from Main.layoutManager.getWorkAreaForMonitor(r(0)).height is halved as well.

[zagortenay333]

What happens when you halve the resolution but set the scale to 200%?

[Yannik]

Everything is huge (and therefore, not alot of the panel fits on the screen), but scrolling works.

[zagortenay333]

So the issue is somehow related to scaling...

[lev741]

Same problem. I have 200% zoom. With lover resolution I not see scroll bar but mouse whell works. With zoom not working.

Btw: Do you plan to be this pages able to translate?

[zagortenay333]

Yeah I need to make the docs translatable as well. Forgot about that...

[zagortenay333]

Could you guys see if it works now? You'll have to download the extension from github.

[lev741]

I tested it, it works fine now.

[Yannik]

Works for me also. Thanks!