rofi squished in height sometimes

[cnf]

Hi,

some calls of rofi, it ends up very squished in height. It is always when a script, or something I did not write calls rofi, such as rofi-systemd, or when i click the prompt in dunst. When I try to manually run the same command, it displays fine.

I kinda ran out of ideas on where to look... any suggestions? I am running 1.7.7+wayland1 on nixos in hyprland

Thanks!

[DaveDavenport]

@lbonn Do you know? as this is the wayland version.

[lbonn]

That's quite the glitch :)
Maybe hi-dpi and multi-monitor related but even then seems like a stretch.

@cnf do you have more details about your monitor setup?

[cnf]

sure:

$ hyprctl monitors
Monitor eDP-1 (ID 0):
	2880x1920@120.00000 at 0x0
	description: BOE NE135A1M-NY1
	make: BOE
	model: NE135A1M-NY1
	serial: 
	active workspace: 1 (<span color='#ff8514'> </span>)
	special workspace: 0 ()
	reserved: 0 30 0 0
	scale: 2.00
	transform: 0
	focused: yes
	dpmsStatus: 1
	vrr: true
	solitary: 0
	activelyTearing: false
	disabled: false
	currentFormat: XRGB8888
	mirrorOf: none
	availableModes: 2880x1920@120.00Hz 2880x1920@60.00Hz 1920x1200@120.00Hz 1920x1080@120.00Hz 1600x1200@120.00Hz 1680x1050@120.00Hz 1280x1024@120.00Hz 1440x900@120.00Hz 1280x800@120.00Hz 1280x720@120.00Hz 1024x768@120.00Hz 800x600@120.00Hz 640x480@120.00Hz 

$ wlr-randr
eDP-1 "BOE NE135A1M-NY1  (eDP-1)"
  Make: BOE
  Model: NE135A1M-NY1
  Serial: (null)
  Physical size: 290x190 mm
  Enabled: yes
  Modes:
    2880x1920 px, 120.000000 Hz (preferred, current)
    2880x1920 px, 60.000999 Hz (preferred)
    1920x1200 px, 120.000000 Hz
    1920x1080 px, 120.000000 Hz
    1600x1200 px, 120.000000 Hz
    1680x1050 px, 120.000000 Hz
    1280x1024 px, 120.000000 Hz
    1440x900 px, 120.000000 Hz
    1280x800 px, 120.000000 Hz
    1280x720 px, 120.000000 Hz
    1024x768 px, 120.000000 Hz
    800x600 px, 120.000000 Hz
    640x480 px, 120.000000 Hz
  Position: 0,0
  Transform: normal
  Scale: 2.000000
  Adaptive Sync: enabled

It is a Framework13 AMD with the 2.8k screen, so it is a hidpi monitor.

It happens with this as the only monitor, and also when I connect a normal dpi monitor and trigger it there.

[cnf]

in case it helps

Hyprland 0.45.2 built from branch v0.45.2-b at commit 12f9a0d0b93f691d4d9923716557154d74777b0a  ([gha] Nix: update inputs).
Date: 2024-11-19
Tag: v0.45.2, commits: 12f9a0d0b93f691d4d9923716557154d74777b0a
built against aquamarine 0.4.4


flags set:
debug


System Information:
System name: Linux
Node name: hydra
Release: 6.12.9
Version: #1-NixOS SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Jan  9 12:33:55 UTC 2025


GPU information: 
c1:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Phoenix1 [1002:15bf] (rev cb) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])


os-release: ANSI_COLOR="1;34"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/issues"
BUILD_ID="24.11.713184.e24b4c09e963"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:nixos:nixos:24.11"
DEFAULT_HOSTNAME=nixos
DOCUMENTATION_URL="https://nixos.org/learn.html"
HOME_URL="https://nixos.org/"
ID=nixos
NAME=NixOS
PRETTY_NAME="NixOS 24.11 (Vicuna)"
SUPPORT_END="2025-06-30"
SUPPORT_URL="https://nixos.org/community.html"
VENDOR_NAME=NixOS
VENDOR_URL="https://nixos.org/"
VERSION="24.11 (Vicuna)"
VERSION_CODENAME=vicuna
VERSION_ID="24.11"


plugins:
  hyprgrass by horriblename ver v0.8.2
  Hyprspace by KZdkm ver 0.1

[cnf]

Small update:

As I am on nixos, it is a wrapped exe:
(I am using rofi-systemd as an example, there are a lot of others that have the same symptoms)

$ cat /home/cnf/.nix-profile/bin/rofi-systemd
#! /nix/store/5mh7kaj2fyv8mk4sfq1brwxgc02884wi-bash-5.2p37/bin/bash -e
PATH=${PATH:+':'$PATH':'}
PATH=${PATH/':''/nix/store/06s17gvxzqikszxyrrcins03c15987zm-util-linux-2.39.4-bin/bin'':'/':'}
PATH='/nix/store/06s17gvxzqikszxyrrcins03c15987zm-util-linux-2.39.4-bin/bin'$PATH
PATH=${PATH#':'}
PATH=${PATH%':'}
export PATH
PATH=${PATH:+':'$PATH':'}
PATH=${PATH/':''/nix/store/lji0hh2w2rv6q9mal3vpxbg413d57vfd-systemd-256.8/bin'':'/':'}
PATH='/nix/store/lji0hh2w2rv6q9mal3vpxbg413d57vfd-systemd-256.8/bin'$PATH
PATH=${PATH#':'}
PATH=${PATH%':'}
export PATH
PATH=${PATH:+':'$PATH':'}
PATH=${PATH/':''/nix/store/57bklsiwz41k28fy9b97zpc8nhs9820r-rofi-1.7.7/bin'':'/':'}
PATH='/nix/store/57bklsiwz41k28fy9b97zpc8nhs9820r-rofi-1.7.7/bin'$PATH
PATH=${PATH#':'}
PATH=${PATH%':'}
export PATH
PATH=${PATH:+':'$PATH':'}
PATH=${PATH/':''/nix/store/c79nkzxaiki5r7igd4a5lawwdds38f2l-jq-1.7.1-bin/bin'':'/':'}
PATH='/nix/store/c79nkzxaiki5r7igd4a5lawwdds38f2l-jq-1.7.1-bin/bin'$PATH
PATH=${PATH#':'}
PATH=${PATH%':'}
export PATH
PATH=${PATH:+':'$PATH':'}
PATH=${PATH/':''/nix/store/a3c47r5z1q2c4rz0kvq8hlilkhx2s718-gawk-5.3.1/bin'':'/':'}
PATH='/nix/store/a3c47r5z1q2c4rz0kvq8hlilkhx2s718-gawk-5.3.1/bin'$PATH
PATH=${PATH#':'}
PATH=${PATH%':'}
export PATH
PATH=${PATH:+':'$PATH':'}
PATH=${PATH/':''/nix/store/4s9rah4cwaxflicsk5cndnknqlk9n4p3-coreutils-9.5/bin'':'/':'}
PATH='/nix/store/4s9rah4cwaxflicsk5cndnknqlk9n4p3-coreutils-9.5/bin'$PATH
PATH=${PATH#':'}
PATH=${PATH%':'}
export PATH
exec -a "$0" "/nix/store/s835lgr1043zaxws3x29hi43qkqk095p-rofi-systemd-0.1.1/bin/.rofi-systemd-wrapped"  "$@" 

If I run the non-wrapped script directly, it works as expected:

$ /nix/store/s835lgr1043zaxws3x29hi43qkqk095p-rofi-systemd-0.1.1/bin/.rofi-systemd-wrapped

not sure what that means yet...

[cnf]

So I think I figured it out.
started a discord question on it, for reference.

I have rofi-wayland installed, but the packages I have that show the above error are using the non-wayland version.

I have a way to fix it for me locally, mostly.
For reference if someone else runs into this.

home.packages = with pkgs; [
  (rofi-systemd.override {rofi = rofi-wayland;})
];

[lbonn]

Ah interesting :). Good that you figured it out! Nixos is quite powerful but the additional layers sometimes need some untangling...

[cnf]

Ha, yes indeed! I like it, but I would not advice unless you want to invest the time :P