Allocation of display sections (e.g. 'lower third' and so on) gives strange results after upgrade to 2.11.0

[sdetweil]

@phil erase the node_modules/electron folder
Then do

npm install electron@version --only=prod

The --only keeps from loading the stuff used by testing… like the chromedriver

I last tested 6.0.12, but don’t know if it was ok for portrait mode use

U may have to redo npm install in module folders. As many modules depend on electron levels

All this from the MagicMirror folder

[phil]

“I last tested 6.0.12, but don’t know if it was ok for profile use”
Did you mean ‘portrait’ use? But I have this problem also in landscape mode without rotated screen.

I removed the electron folders in node_modules and did

npm install electron@3.0.6 --only=prod

With this version everything is fine again. I try to figure out for which version of electron it breaks…

[sdetweil]

@phil yes, meant portrait

[sdetweil]

@phil the last version of MM 2.10 was using electron 3.0.13

[phil]

I have the following results now:

electron 3.x.x : working as expected
electron 4.x.x : not working at all, the screen stays black
from electron 5 up to latest version (8.2.2) : The text of the different modules gets overlaid as shown in the screenshots.

For the moment I stay at version 3.0.13 as all the modules I’m using are working fine.
(alert, updatenotification, clock, calendar, compliments, newsfeed, helloworls, MMM-ImageSlideshow)

But I fear at some point I’ll have to update to be able to use the latest MagicMirror commit…

Can I somehow set this topic to “Closed” or “Solved” (at least for now ;-) )?

And, thank you very much for your help, @sdetweil !

[sdetweil]

@phil you will probably need to do npm install in some of the module folders when u change electron versions…

I would do the test with the sample config…

anyhow… u didn’t open this as a problem, so it can’t be closed…