"Maximum real console size was reached" on locking the Screen [Win10]

[greg-dryke]

Hi,

I have an issue with the scaling of the console on Win10, ConEmu 150722.

Whenever I lock the screen, I get a toast notification of

Maximum real console size was reached
Decrease font size in the real console properties

On unlock, the console is scaled incorrectly, taking up only a portion of the actual area. This also seems to happen on some other actions, but is 100% repeatable on screen lock.

I have one log with the error here:
http://pastebin.com/D4FadPTz

Let me know if there's anything else I can get you to help! Thanks!

[Maximus5]

This is a log from ConEmuC64.exe only. But I need all logs at once.

[greg-dryke]

Sure! This is after scrubbing the logs, launching ConEmu as Admin with /log, and then locking the screen.

Three log files:
ConEmuC64-size-13148.log
ConEmu-gui-28324.log
ConEmu-input-13148.log

http://pastebin.com/cmCKd7jc

You can Ctrl-F for each file, let me know if you'd like the raw files zipped up and dumped somewhere, or if this works!

[Maximus5]

Please reveal RealConsole (Ctrl+Win+Alt+Space) and do full-screen screenshots before Lock and after Unlock.

[greg-dryke]

Before

After

Definitely some change...Let me know if this is most likely just some weird configuration on my end, I can hack at my powershell defaults and such. Thanks!

[ei06009]

I have this problem as well on windows 10. This is because I have a 2 monitor setup and my 2nd monitor has a bigger screen resolution than my 1st monitor. If I have conemu on my 2nd monitor taking the whole height and when I lock the screen (Win + L), the message appears.

If, however, I reduce the height to something smaller than my 1st monitor (even if it is on my 2nd), the error won't occur. It will occur again if I then resize (to something bigger than my 1st monitor height) the window after re-entering the system from the lock screen.

If I don't lock the screen, then no error occurs independent of windows size and resizes.
It may be because windows shuts the 2nd monitor off and it didn't on windows 8 (never happened there) forcing a move to the 1st and causing the error.

[ilyapas]

I had the same problems and it looks like I've been able to fix them.

Fire up your normal cmd.exe (or use Ctrl+Win+Alt+Space to open the real console from conemu), go to properties, activate the checkbox "use legacy console" and then relaunch.

New conhost.exe "improvements" really seem to be the problem here.

[Maximus5]

As temporary workaround - may be... (SystemMenu / Debug / RealConsole properties is a faster way)

But you'll lose ability to wrap lines on resizing...

[ei06009]

It is fixed for me using 150816. Same conditions I described above. Thanks!

[SOSANA]

@Maximus5 1+ thank you, this worked for me on windows 10 as I was getting this error and could not figure out why

[conan]

I have this problem on my Windows 10 laptop, no external monitor. I notice it particularly because Windows 10 has a habit of auto-locking when I'm in the middle of working sigh. I suspect it's a resolution problem, because when I unlock, the conemu window is still full-screen but the actual console in each section (i usually have split console windows) is about half its size. I run at 3200x1800.

[Maximus5]

@conan Build number!

[conan]

150913, sorry!

[Maximus5]

151210 is far newer

[conan]

oh of course, i was reading the "no newer stable version" as "no newer version". updated and checked with a manual lock, problem fixed. thanks!

[davidbridgeinteractive]

I'm having this same issue with 180626.

[Maximus5]

LogFiles please

[davidbridgeinteractive]

ConEmu-con-11476.log
ConEmu-gui-9148.log
ConEmu-srv-11476.log

Hopefully this is what you asked for. This is only after using the -log switch, if you need another level (-log1 -log4 etc) let me know. I grepped the log files, and found the error message:

ConEmu-con-11476.log:10:20:54.331 [17848] Maximum real console size {116,36} was reached, lesser size {116,36} was applied than requested {256,59}

AFAIK I haven't changed any of the default settings. Let me know if you need anything else.