Pop-up window from panel indicator/icon too much to the left, not fully visible

[Filbuntu]

Installation on Ubuntu 18.04 worked fine with pip3, but the displayed list (pop-up window) is placed too much to the left side and therefore not fully visible.

How could I change this? Or how could the app be edited to fully show the window below the icon/indicator?

[lafrech]

Thanks for reporting.

I can't reproduce.

I don't run the same desktop environment. I use Mate. When I put the panel on the left, the window displays properly.

[lafrech]

I suspected this could be due to the panel being on the left but I realize from your screenshot that your QBirthday icon is up right, like on my config.

The code responsible for the placement of the window is here:

        # Window shall appear under system tray icon
        systray_icon_pos = self.status_icon.geometry().center()
        self.move(systray_icon_pos.x() - self.width() / 2,
                  systray_icon_pos.y())

I don't understand why it doesn't work for you.

This code is not so clever. It is fitted to my "panel up" use case but I don't think I even thought about the other positions. Anyway, when I put the panel on the left, the window sticks to the left so as to stay entirely visible.

[Filbuntu]

Thank you for your feedback. Hopefully somebody else help. This problem is really a pain!

[lafrech]

Maybe you can try to reach attention on a Ubuntu forum if you want someone to help with this.

This might be a simple fix.

[Filbuntu]

Thanks for the quick and helpful hint. I already posted a question: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=13765583#poststop But so far no response :-( I also tried to play with some gnome extension and see if this influences the behaviour but without success.

[Filbuntu]

In the meantime there is a also a launchpad bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1777240
Workaround: Reduce the numbers of displayed birthdays in the preferences until the window is not anymore too tall for the screen and the window is fully visible (at least on my system).

[lafrech]

The fact the the window is not fully visible when it is too big (too many birthdays to display) is a limitation of the current code. I could add a QScrollArea to display a scroll bar when needed. It takes quite a lot to fill a screen with typical modern dimensions, but from your screenshot, it looks like you have a lot of fiends and relatives and you reached that limit.

The wrong position, seems to be a Qt issue that I should be dealing with in the code. It is still unclear to me. For the record, I asked about it on SO.

[lafrech]

I opened a separate issue for the vertical scroll bar: #15.

Let's discuss only the position issue in this one.