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Title: Blank area at the bottom of the screen?
Post by: joe on March 21, 2018, 07:04:33 pm

When using the Notes application (I can't remember if I've seen it elsewhere), there's a huge chunk of the screen missing. The bottom 80% or so of the screen is just white blank space, so I can only see a small sliver of the app. Quitting notes and starting again doesn't help.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix?

EDIT: Pressing escape makes it go away. Not a real solution or or explanation though, as it comes back.

Title: Blank area at the bottom of the screen?
Post by: Lyall Pearce on March 21, 2018, 07:25:16 pm

Quote from: joe

When using the Notes application (I can't remember if I've seen it elsewhere), there's a huge chunk of the screen missing. The bottom 80% or so of the screen is just white blank space, so I can only see a small sliver of the app. Quitting notes and starting again doesn't help.

Has anyone else seen this? Is there a fix?

Try typing a note with newlines (pressing Enter).
The note area extends down, eventually filling the 'white area'.

Title: Blank area at the bottom of the screen?
Post by: joe on March 21, 2018, 08:00:24 pm

Sadly no. Here's a screenshot.

 [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

I also ran across this problem again with Bluetooth pairing. I'm 99% sure the system is somehow telling the app that the screen is only an inch high.

 [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

When that dialogue pops up there's a brief flash of the content before it disappears.

Title: Blank area at the bottom of the screen?
Post by: joe on March 21, 2018, 08:07:27 pm

Solution: After a bit of faffing around, I've found that pressing the esc key solves this problems (in both cases).

Who knows what's happening. Maybe it's the gemini launcher misbehaving?

(I can understand (and support) Planet doing this by the skin of their teeth, but the lack of foresight in setting up an issue tracker is annoying. They must have known there would be issues like this.)

Title: Blank area at the bottom of the screen?
Post by: depscribe on March 21, 2018, 08:42:45 pm

Quote from: joe

(I can understand (and support) Planet doing this by the skin of their teeth, but the lack of foresight in setting up an issue tracker is annoying. They must have known there would be issues like this.)

They've been busy making sure that everything's perfect with the order tracking system they launched sometime maybe.

Title: Blank area at the bottom of the screen?
Post by: scops on March 22, 2018, 02:24:30 am

Maybe it's a failed rendered virtual keyboard?!

Title: Blank area at the bottom of the screen?
Post by: FredL on March 22, 2018, 06:00:02 am

Actually I had this problem, too - and it went away. I think I fiddled with the Virtual Keyboard settings but sorry I can't remember what fixed it exactly. Maybe just a reboot did it,,,,

Title: Blank area at the bottom of the screen?
Post by: Lyall Pearce on March 23, 2018, 08:07:37 pm

Quote from: joe

Sadly no. Here's a screenshot.

 [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

I also ran across this problem again with Bluetooth pairing. I'm 99% sure the system is somehow telling the app that the screen is only an inch high.

 [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]

When that dialogue pops up there's a brief flash of the content before it disappears.

Wow, that is markedly different from what I see, so my comment does not apply.
You don't even see the 'toolbar', which includes a search bar.
What happens if you rotate?