root root -a shows splash screen cut between two display monitors

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Description

If you have a laptop and an external monitor, the ROOT splash shows inbetween both displays, making it unreadable.

Reproducer

root -a

ROOT version

ROOT v6.30/04
Built for linuxx8664gcc on Jan 31 2024, 10:01:37
From heads/master@tags/v6-30-04
With c++ (Ubuntu 11.4.0-1ubuntu1~22.04) 11.4.0
Binary directory: /opt/root/bin

Installation method

Binary Release

Operating system

Ubuntu 22.04

Additional context

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Feb 25 '24 14:02 ferdymercury

See https://github.com/root-project/root/blob/c6b1bce8faad761c5fc13e74698ae6bb075b2a0c/rootx/src/rootxx.cxx#L600 And https://github.com/root-project/root/blob/c6b1bce8faad761c5fc13e74698ae6bb075b2a0c/rootx/src/rootxx-cocoa.mm#L852 comments by @TimurP

Feb 27 '24 12:02 ferdymercury

Hot take :fire:

A splash screen is so 90s :laughing: I would just get rid of it entirely. Why is it necessary? The Python interpreter also has none.

At least I would keep it broken like this and not fix the issue, so there is one more argument for why it can be removed :slightly_smiling_face:

Mar 25 '24 18:03 guitargeek

+1 about removing it heheh. The logo is cool though...

Mar 25 '24 18:03 ferdymercury

That's true, the logo is nice! But wow, I just took a quick look, and this logo feature is not lightweight at all! It even adds a X11 / cocoa dependency for the ROOT interpreter that would be gone otherwise. Then there are also workarounds for cxxmodules, some ifdefs, etc. I'm checking in a PR what the implications for removing it would be.

Mar 25 '24 19:03 guitargeek

Hi @guitargeek,

It appears this issue is closed, but wasn't yet added to a project. Please add upcoming versions that will include the fix, or 'not applicable' otherwise.

Sincerely, :robot:

Dec 05 '24 06:12 github-actions[bot]