Hi Tim --

Are you referring to the host-window size or the system-window size? I think you mean the latter. Whether or not the scale factor is involved, you can check by looking at what is selected in "Extras > Scale Factor" menu.

I am not sure that I really understand what you mean. However, there are two hard-coded numbers in RealEstateAgent class >> #strictlyStaggeredInitialFrameFor:... which we did not adjust to the scale factor.

...
"Number to be staggered at each corner (less on small screens)"
maxLevel := allowedArea area > 300000 ifTrue: [3] ifFalse: [2].
"Amount by which to stagger (less on small screens)"
grid := allowedArea area > 500000 ifTrue: [40] ifFalse: [20].
...

Would you apply a "* self scaleFactor" to those areas and see if the problem gets fixed? :-) Maybe also the grid.

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This is most likely not a VM issue but related to a feature in newer VMs. It might be that a newer VM will actually deliver that platformScaleFactor which will then set the image-side uiScaleFactor which will then modify the "RealEstateAgent scaleFactor" which will then result in bigger default-window areas and thus hit those magic boundaries. Not sure.

Best,
Marcel
Am 29.05.2022 20:54:38 schrieb tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>:
I'm just trying the latest release VM (ARMv8 on a Pi in this case) and it seems to be doing Odd Things with the window size.

The same image on two different Pis opens with different window sizes. One Pi has a 1920 at 180 screen and the initial window is notably smaller than what it was when I saved the image, the other has a 1920 at 1440 screen and the initial window size is what I set. That size is not larger than the 1920 at 1080 screen, by the way. To the best of my recollection this is new (mis)behaviour.

We've always done some startup checks in the VM to fit the window within the available display limits but I don't remember previously over-riding the requested size this aggressively. Has anyone changed this code recently? Or is this a side effect of recent scale factor stuff? I can't spot any suspicious code in the image right now.

tim
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