On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Ranjan Maitra < maitra.mbox.igno...@inbox.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 22:36:51 +0200 Suvayu Ali <fatkasuvayu > +li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 05:13:39AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have a strange issue with notify-send (using either window-manager: > > > openbox or pekwm). So, what happens is that the pop-up (on the > > > top right of the screen) appears to fall off the edge of the screen (on > > > the right) with occasionally the rightmost part showing on the top left > > > of the screen. > > > > > > As an example, consider the following: > > > > > > notify-send "Hello World! for he's a jolly good fellow who says hello > > > world to all the world" > > > > > > the following is what happens on my 1920x1080 resolution laptop -- > there > > > is a popup and I see the following on the right side of my screen: I > > > see upto "Hello World! for he's a jolly good fellow" (with only half > > > the "w" displayed) and on the next line, I get "world to all the > > > world". Clearly, the line goes beyond the workspace and eventually > > > wraps around. On the other hand, I get notify-send "Hello" all right > > > without any issues (because I guess the number of characters is too > > > small to make a difference?). > > > > Bash does history expansion inside double quotes. Did you try escaping > > the `!', something like "World\!". > > > > Thanks, Suvayu. I don't think this has anything to do with my problem, > though: because this was just an example. Regardless, just to be sure, > I tried the above without the "!" and got exactly the same result. > > I don't understand the problem at all, but it appears to be some issue > related to the extent of the workspace on the screen (for want of a > better word) as seen by the notify daemon/contraption (again, for want > of a better word)? > Does xrandr report your correct screen extent? Does it report that the current screen is 1920x1080 as you expect? -- Dale Dellutri
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