Hints misalignment and weird behavior when aligned

[SergioMG97]

Hi, first of all thank you so much for creating and maintaining hints. I really appreciate all the work you’ve put into it — it’s the only real workaround I’ve found for Homerow on Linux, and I’m very grateful for that.

I’ve just installed hints and I’m running into a few issues.

The main problem is that the hints are shifted. They only align correctly under certain circumstances:

• Aligned: external monitor through HDMI, resolution 2560x1080 (21:9), built-in monitor disabled
• Misaligned: using DP (5120x2160, 21:9, whether built-in display is disabled or enabled)
• Misaligned: using just the built-in display

In addition, when the hints are aligned and I trigger one, sometimes the cursor either stays still or jumps to the wrong place.

To try and debug the shifted hints: with just the built-in monitor, it looks like the cursor itself goes to the right place, it’s just that the hints are not properly positioned.

I also read in another issue that having more than one keyboard layout can cause problems, so I’ve made sure I’m only using the US layout.

Could you please give me a hand and help me debug this, I would really appreciate it.

Thanks again for all your work!

pipx version: 1.4.3
system: Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS
When I change the built-in scale from 200% (the one I typically use) to 100% the hints are aligned, but when I trigger any of them the cursor doesnt click on the right place

[Ostap4ello]

Hi,

Please take a look at #48 (#61), #62 and this.
Are those the same issues you were experiencing?

Fixes for 48 and 62 are waiting for the approval (see pull requests). I've forked the repo and have these fixes on master for now, until changes are pending into the this one.

- ostap4ello