root -a shows splash screen cut between two display monitors

[ferdymercury]

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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

No response

[ferdymercury]

See

root/rootx/src/rootxx.cxx

Line 600 in c6b1bce

//TODO: this is wrong with multi-head display setup!

And

root/rootx/src/rootxx-cocoa.mm

Line 852 in c6b1bce

//Set the splash-screen's position (can it be wrong for a multi-head setup?)

comments by @TimurP

[guitargeek]

Hot take 🔥

A splash screen is so 90s 😆 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 🙂

[ferdymercury]

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

[guitargeek]

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.