Please read tips for efficient and successful posting and posting code Please fill also the fields below. Note that root -b -q will tell you this info, and starting from 6.28/06 upwards, you can call .forum bug from the ROOT prompt to pre-populate a topic. ROOT Version: 6.40.02 Platform: Ubuntu …

Strange indeed. However, I can click on the produced menu items, but it is very inconvenient. On my old laptop running ROOT 6.24.08 under Ubuntu 18 in a windows powershell, everything works well. But that screen has a different resolution, so maybe it is related to that. By the way: Is there a way…

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Thanks for the hints. Now I can indeed change the fonts in .rootc via setting Gui.DefaultFont etc. But … when I have a canvas and open the editor via its dropdown menu, it seems that the window is not correctly scaled for the now larger font, so that there appears a horizontal slider bar in the edi…

[image] Nick_van_Eijndhoven: setting such that when the font is larger, either the window is enlarged accordingly, or the window stays the same size, but the canvas size is reduced A ROOT developer may correct me, but as far as I know there isn’t such setting. Maybe you could try to change th…

Okido, I will try to use the web interface. How can I activate the web interface ? ps. The mislocation of the dropdown menus might be related to a mismatch of the screen resolution between the regular Windows 11 screen and the produced WSL Ubuntu screen. However, I don’t see a way (yet) to modify t…

This has been fixed in master. See this PR and this commit

Hi Bertrand, Great! Does that mean that with the following (patch) release of ROOT 6.40 it will be fixed? I am using the binary ROOT distribution for my Ubuntu system.

No, it will be in the next release (6.42)

Okido, all clear. Don’t take too long to get it out :wink:

Location of dropdown menu from TCanvas and context info displaced

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dastudillo June 17, 2026, 7:51pm 2

That’s been an issue for several years already, and it seems that it won’t be solved; it seemed to be working at first with the method I showed in my posts below, but then it stopped working again. Maybe running ROOT in a browser (with the option --web=on) will bypass the issue, but I haven’t used ROOT on WSL for a while so I’m not sure.