Bug: mouse cursor and steam window/tabs/buttons not aligned.

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zoigo 20 Jul, 2020 @ 2:31am

Bug: mouse cursor and steam window/tabs/buttons not aligned.

ISSUE
Steam registers mouse over and click events not where the cursor currently is.
I can move the mouse somewhere in the top middle of the screen to affect features that are on the top left side of steam window
https://i.ibb.co/myq03LQ/steam-scale.png

Even Steam's tray menu is affected, it becomes unusable too, I have to use Windows Task Manager to kill Steam to restart it afresh.

OS
Windows 10

STEPS
Can be thrown off whack by a game with other than set screen resolution,
but the most frequent way to cause it is to move the steam window to a secondary screen with different scale. I use 1920x1080 primary, scale %100, and 3840x2160 secondary, scale %200.

RESULTS
Steam uses incorrect screen size to process mouse events.

EXPECTED
Mouse click should land right there where its cursor is drawn by windows.

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Anonysaurus 16 Oct, 2021 @ 8:53am

Still not addressed

zoigo 17 Oct, 2021 @ 1:36am

yes, DPI causes all kinds of glitches in steam, like image popup windows and game properties windows being too small. even if i do not change the dpi, it would glitch out after waking from screenoff standby (some monitors would detach/reattach as a device when going black

unacceptable

Speed 1 Feb, 2022 @ 4:21am

Still not fixed in the latest beta (Build: Jan 31 2022 at 19:48:46 with Package Version 1643690051) on Windows 11.

Using 5120 x 1440 at 150% Display Scaling and I cannot click on any of the UI without carefully working out how much offset is required to get the cursor to interact with it.

Marsi4eg 3 Feb, 2022 @ 1:35am

After the last few updates I'm experiencing issues with pop-ups, even without scaling, in full hd resolution. Sometimes I just can't open pop-up menus when moving cursor over tabs (not clicking them) and pop-up menus appear for the millisecond and immidiately disappear, so I'm not able to select proper option to navigate somewhere. Only restarting Steam helps to fix this, but suddenly the bug starts to happen again, etc.

I think this may be also caused by the same ui "improvements", that broke scaling

zoigo 3 Feb, 2022 @ 1:10pm

how about this bs
https://i.ibb.co/MPS2xkv/image.png
this (any app submenu) takes like less than 1/10 of my laptop 2k screen, window is not resizable, but scrollbars are there
so the window is some kind of half-a55-dynamic, but no resizing for you!!
i wonder if anyone reads these reports here or are we screaming at the wall here
god, send me a sign

Blasta 26 Nov, 2022 @ 11:52am

still having this bug, anyone found a solution ? I even changed my computer and its still here xD maybe screen related ?

JeanCoach 12 Mar, 2023 @ 3:11pm

I have this bug since a long time, it's not fixed. Only way to fix is to restart steam

TOUCAN2K 6 Jan, 2024 @ 8:22am

as of this morning I appear to have this issue.
yesterday I was running Obduction with no issues , today when I start Obduction the mouse pointer is misaligned, the pointer needs to be down and the the left of the start menu elements to select them, thus I cannot select the lower options. once in the game where yesterday the graphic fitted the wuhd 5120x2160 screen, now it has a stretched the image to fit the width (assume it is using a 16:9 setting) . When accessing the setup via <esc> the mouse misalignment makes awkward to change settings but impossible to apply changes'
Has anyone seen this and managed to fix it?