DrRacket error when clicking menus on 5k monitor.
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Description
What version of Racket are you using?
e.g., 7.7 [cs]
Welcome to DrRacket, version 9.0 [cs].
What program did you run?
Please include a short example that triggers the bug
Click any menu in DrRacket.
What should have happened?
No Error dialog
If you got an error message, please include it here.
screen->client in window<%>: contract violation
expected: (integer-in -1000000 1000000)
given: -8388608
context...:
/home/erucker/racket/share/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/lock.rkt:43:38
/home/erucker/racket/collects/racket/private/more-scheme.rkt:266:2: call-with-exception-handler
/home/erucker/racket/share/pkgs/drracket-core-lib/drracket/private/syncheck/gui.rkt:1462:12: syncheck:update-drawn-arrows method in ...ate/syncheck/gui.rkt:405:10
/home/erucker/racket/share/pkgs/drracket-core-lib/drracket/private/syncheck/gui.rkt:2181:8: on-activate method in unit-frame-mixin
/home/erucker/racket/share/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wx/common/queue.rkt:436:6
/home/erucker/racket/share/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wx/common/queue.rkt:487:32
/home/erucker/racket/share/pkgs/gui-lib/mred/private/wx/common/queue.rkt:639:3
Please include any other relevant details
e.g., the operating system used or how you are running the code.
Running on Ubuntu 25.10 with a 5k monitor.
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Research direction
Reproduce the error by clicking a DrRacket menu on Ubuntu 25.10 with a 5k monitor. Start with gui-lib/mred/private/lock.rkt at line 43 and drracket-core-lib/drracket/private/syncheck/gui.rkt at line 1462, following the reported screen->client contract violation. Done means menu clicks no longer show an Error dialog.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100