Preferences window covers whole UI

[StefanHager]

SLADE Version: (3.2.4) (d05af4b)
Operating System: ( Debian 11)

Issue Details:
When activating preferences from the Edit menu, the screen turns white (fullscreen) and no buttons appear. Slade is unusable then and needs to be killed. But without setting preferences i can't configure it.

I built slade from source since i couldn't install it by the package manager for my distro.

Libraries:

$ readelf -d slade | grep NEEDED
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libz.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libbz2.so.1.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libGL.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libGLU.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libEGL.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libwayland-egl.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libwayland-client.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libX11.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libXxf86vm.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libSM.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libgtk-3.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libgdk-3.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libpangocairo-1.0.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libcairo.so.2]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libgio-2.0.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libpangoft2-1.0.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libpango-1.0.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libgobject-2.0.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libglib-2.0.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libfontconfig.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libpcre2-32.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libpng16.so.16]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libjpeg.so.62]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libtiff.so.5]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libdl.so.2]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libfreeimage.so.3]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libsfml-system.so.2.5]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libsfml-audio.so.2.5]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libsfml-window.so.2.5]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libsfml-network.so.2.5]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libftgl.so.2]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [liblua5.4.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libm.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libmpg123.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libfluidsynth.so.2]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libgcc_s.so.1]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libpthread.so.0]
 0x0000000000000001 (NEEDED)             Shared library: [libc.so.6]

In issue #1351 it was suggested setting GDB Backend to x11 ($GDK_BACKEND=x11 slade) but this did not change anything.

I stumbled over this issue a few weeks ago. Today i gave it a new try witht the latest master, but the result was the same.

What else can i try?

[sirjuddington]

Hmm I'm not sure what would cause something like that, is there anything in the log file? (~/.slade3/slade3.log)

[StefanHager]

Sorry for the late response...

This is the content of the log, nothing strange here

~/.slade3$ cat slade3.log 
16:39:21:  [Info] SLADE - It's a Doom Editor
16:39:21:  [Info] Version 3.2.4
16:39:21:  [Info] Written by Simon Judd, 2008-2023
16:39:21:  [Info] Compiled with wxWidgets 3.2.2 and SFML 2.5.1
16:39:21:  [Info] --------------------------------
16:39:21:  [Info] Loading configuration
16:39:21:  [Info] Loading resources
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/main.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/aman.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/arch.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/pgfx.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/actions/' / 'pgfx_brush.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/aelt.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/txed.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/anim.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/swch.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/ppal.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/data.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/ptxt.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/mapw.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/actions/' / 'mapw_general.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/actions/' / 'mapw_show.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/actions/' / 'mapw_line.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/actions/' / 'mapw_sector.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/actions/' / 'mapw_script.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Looking for #include entry '/' / 'actions/scrm.cfg'
16:39:21:  [Info] Loading icons
16:39:21:  [Info] Loading entry types
16:39:21:  [Info] Loading text languages
16:39:21: [Error] Can't convert "F1" to a double (stod)
16:39:21:  [Info] Loading text style sets
16:39:21:  [Info] Loading colour configuration
16:39:21:  [Info] Loading base resource
16:39:21:  [Info] Base resource loaded
16:39:21:  [Info] Loading game configurations
16:39:21:  [Info] SLADE Initialisation OK

Maybe the window info in slade.cfg is strange:

window_info
{
	main 2880 1578 4014 194
	map 1024 768 0 0
	mobjprops_Sector 3840 2032 3840 26
	prefs 12800 9392 150 54
}

// End Configuration File

Current screen resolution on main screen is 3840x2160, the second screen has an equal resolution.

[sirjuddington]

Hmm yeah that prefs window size is way too large :P Try changing it to something smaller and see if it works. First 2 numbers are size, second 2 are position on the screen.

[MarkJeronimus]

I have the same issue, but luckily I have a second monitor on a different offset so I can drag the preferences panel to the right a bit and see the buttons.

Workaround when you don't see the buttons: Ctrl-Enter activates the default button ("OK")

Furthermore, every toolbar and every dialog is 2x bigger than necessary. It's like the 200% scaling is applied twice. Many dialogs and panels can't be shrunk because of their runtime MinSize.

[lvlgl]

Hmm yeah that prefs window size is way too large :P Try changing it to something smaller and see if it works. First 2 numbers are size, second 2 are position on the screen.

I've also noticed that the preferences window size is excessively large. I attempted to adjust the size to smaller values, but it keeps reverting to inadequate dimensions. It seems that the values from the configuration file are being multiplied by ten.

I'm using KDE Plasma 6.2.3 with Wayland on Arch Linux. Fractional scaling set to 150%.