On Thu, Nov 03, 2016 at 04:42:16PM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > Given that this worked in 49.0-4 and has to do with window creation, I > can guess it's related to the switch to gtk3.
After some experimenting, this actually looks like it's related to setting GDK_SCALE=2 in the environment. Unsetting that makes the problem go away (but makes widgets and fonts tiny with gtk3, as described in #843104). -Peff