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Like the topic says, when I start my N900 the Hildon desktop appears in a reduced size. It's hard to believe that I'm the first to see this weird issue, but I can't find anything about it in the forums. Perhaps it's just because keywords like "display" and "shrink" and "size" and the others I tried searching on yield way too many posts about other sizes of other things (usually storage space).

Anyway, when I power up the N900, the desktop appears reduced to about 70-80% of its normal size. Other than being too small, it looks normal. The surrounding area is black, with the reduced desktop in the center. It's a little hard to use, of course, since the digitizer doesn't shrink down with the desktop: you have to click where the target should appear at full size, not where it really is. I've got Optimize n900 installed, and it has a button at the top of the power button menu, so I can pretty easily click that and it will restart the Hildon desktop everything will be ok. Why this works on restart but not on start is a puzzle to me. This is a relatively recent development, so it must be something I did (changed, installed, removed, deleted, edited).

If anyone has any hints or has seen this discussed before and can point me to the correct keywords (or topic) I appreciate it. Luckily, the N900 doesn't need to be shut down and restarted much, but I'd still like to know how I got into this situation.
 
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Get them to wrap up and bind your hands painfully tightly...
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Results should be tiny tiny tiny hands that hopefully will accommodate your odd new tiny screen situation.

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This is by far the weirdest bug yet I've ever seen.
I do hope it isn't contagious and naturally I do hope for your own sanity it is figured out.
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That really sounds weird.
And I never heard about it, too. Sorry.

Sometimes, under heavy load (swap clearing/changing), I observe similar display (only) behaviour when switching from menu to desktop / vice versa. But that keeps just a few seconds and then shows everything normal.
Is everything affected? I mean are also apps and menu affected? Or only the desktop?

btw: I have seldom a glitch with notifiers (yellow pop up) messages. They appear and on fading out they leave a blurred area where I cannot see what is behind (display area got blocked). Restarting all hildon- processes do not resolve, only a reboot helps.
As this is similar I would appreciate every input...
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That happens very rarely under still not clear conditions. I suspect a transition landscape->portrait while h-d is still not fully initialized is what triggers the bug, but I have never been able to recreate it. A reboot with kbd open restores the normal behaviour.
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I think I've gotten this before, and a reboot fixed mine
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Yes, exactly as FMG said it.
 

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Same thing with me too. Rarely happens, but annoying as hell. Reboot is your friend.
 

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Code:
killall hildon-desktop
would likely also work via SSH if you have auto-connect on a Wi-Fi network. Unfortunately I set up my home WiFi as WPA-Enterprise, which does not allow auto-connect on N900.
 

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#9
Since I knew that one thing the OptimizeN900 script did was to kill hildon-desktop and allow it to restart, I was certainly glad I'd enabled its power button menu item. Easy to click the top button in portrait view -- even if the button doesn't line up with the resistive digitizer I know where the top of the display should be. Getting to the terminal -- or any given application -- is tricky with the scale translation problen.

Since it usually -- but not always -- happens on cold start, rarely happens on "unexpected reboot" and never seems to occur when restarting hildon-desktop by killing it, I have to wonder if a race condition problem exists. Not as in a "man's inhumanity to man" thing, but the order that tasks and processes start and finish under different circumstances. Will try a cold start with keyboard open to see what happens.

If I find out anything else interesting, I'll post. Thanks all for the ideas.
 
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Remember that you can press Ctrl + Shift + X to open xterm

Really odd bug tho, never had it.
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