if you use meld for a 3way merge (e.g. for git/mercurial) and the (laptop) display is "small" (1366x768) the opening meld window is wider than the screen. This worked at least in mga7. It really gets annoying to move the window arround to see what gets merged.
Thank you for the report. "1366x768" is hardly small. It happens to be what my desktop screen is. Is there any *easy* way I could try this without getting bogged down in a hundred site registrations? Does the problem only arise with 3way merge? Is the window maximised, or at the intermediate size? If you maximise it, does it still overflow the screen width? Obvious point: can you RESIZE the window to fit the screen? This often only works if you can seize the bottom RH corner, but in your case should work if you can seize either LH or RH window edge. If you cannot 'see' the edge or corner to grab to resize, holding down ALT usually enables the window to be moved (dragged) partly off-screen so you can see the vital edge or corner.
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
Can confirm this behaviour on Mag8 Plasma x86_64 with 1600x900 screen resolution. The meld window itself (for a 3-way merge) is not resizable in width. Only in height.
Created attachment 13056 [details] left part of meld window
Created attachment 13057 [details] right part of meld window
The actual upstream version 3.20.4 from 13. Aug 2021 https://meldmerge.org/ is also not resizeable in width, BUT it actually scales/fits to the right screen resolution. So there seems to be a problem in our packaged version.
that really would help. Instead I need to move the window around. On my big desktop screen, it works (most of the time). But it has a resolution of 1920x
Marc, could you test if the upstream version 3.20.4 works for you with 1366x768 screen resolution? No need for installation, only unpack the archive and run /bin/meld out of the directory.
In mageia8 we have 3.21.0 (which is a devel version). And by downloading and testing I can say: 3.20.4 works, 3.21.0 not!
@David: you changed the version to 3.21.0 (on 2020-04-22), can you please fix it, and/or fill a bug upstream?
Assignee: bugsquad => geiger.david68210
Thank you sturmvogel for your extra information. This looks an unusual case of us pushing something too in advance. Clearly if 'meld' can be reverted to 3.20.4, that would suffice.
CC: lewyssmith => (none)
We have only 2 possibilities: - patching - or increasing epoch (+downgrade)
@David: what do we do about this? it is really anoying!
Downgraded meld package: An unstable version was pushed submitted to mageia. This "update" reverts the package to the latest stable version. ======================== Updated packages in core/updates_testing: ======================== meld-3.20.4-1.mga8.noarch SRPM: meld-3.20.4-1.mga8.src.rpm
Assignee: geiger.david68210 => qa-bugs
MGA8-64 Plasma on Lenovo B50 in Dutch No installation isues. I staged a 3-way file comparison and the three windows fitted nicely into the starting window which was about half the size of my screen. Looks good.
CC: (none) => herman.viaeneWhiteboard: (none) => MGA8-64-OK
Validating. Advisory in Comment 13.
CC: (none) => andrewsfarm, sysadmin-bugsKeywords: (none) => validated_update
Keywords: (none) => advisoryCC: (none) => davidwhodgins
An update for this issue has been pushed to the Mageia Updates repository. https://advisories.mageia.org/MGAA-2022-0009.html
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED