Re: Monitor attributes on Windows 11/WSL2

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sat, 01 Aug 2026 12:51:53 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> From: Arash Esbati <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2026 11:33:08 +0200
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> an AUCTeX user on Windows 11, WSL2, Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS reported here[1]
> that the function `frame-monitor-attributes' returns this (line breaks
> added for legibility):
> 
>   ((name . "rdp")
>    (geometry 0 108 2560 1440)
>    (workarea 0 108 2560 1440)
>    (mm-size 0 0)
>    (scale-factor . 1.0)
>    (frames #<frame *scratch* - GNU Emacs ...>)
>    (source . "Gdk"))
> 
> Note the mm-size values which break the functionality of AUCTeX preview.
> I can fix this in AUCTeX sources to deal with the 0 values, but is this
> the expected behavior?  I don't use Windows/WSL2 so I can't test this
> myself.  I suspect "rdp" means Remote Desktop Protocol.  TIA.

Martin, any suggestions or ideas?