GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 779214
Caret tracking with High DPI incorrectly calculates caret possition
Last modified: 2021-07-05 14:12:46 UTC
When using caret tracking with GNOME shell magnifier the caret position does not correctly compute the caret position when high DPI scaling is enabled. To reproduce: 1. On a system that supports high DPI, enable UI scaling. 2. Enable the shell magnifier Super + Alt + 8. open an application such as gnome-terminal and start typing. By default the caret should be centred and track across as you type however on high DPI systems the location being tracked is ofter off screen to the right and down from the centre of the magnified view. Tested on a Dell XPS 13 (Intel 7th generation) developer edition with Ubuntu 16.10 running GNOME.
The patch here https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=781494 may be a fix for the problem, or at least is related to.
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