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src/import/LauncherView.lua

@@ -2200,7 +2200,15 @@ end
 -- pinned Play block used to walk up over the cards on a short window, which
 -- is unusable, and the footer simply lives below the fold until scrolled to.
 local function minPanelHeight(m)
-  return math.floor(460 * m.s)
+  -- One column stacks the actions card, the slot card and the pinned Play
+  -- block in a single pile, so it needs more room than the side-by-side
+  -- layout: 460 was tuned for two columns, and on a squat one-column window
+  -- (a 4:3 device, a phone held upright) it left the slot card clipped
+  -- inert against the pinned buttons -- Kit's clip bounds hit-testing, so
+  -- no slot could be picked at all (#852).  660 fits the actions card, one
+  -- slot row with its pager and New button, and the pinned block; whatever
+  -- the window cannot show, the page scroll above reaches.
+  return math.floor((m.twoCol and 460 or 660) * m.s)
 end
 
 function LauncherView.draw(imp)

src/import/RomImporter.lua

@@ -2409,10 +2409,18 @@ function RomImporter:runActions(queue)
 end
 
 -- Clicks are polled inside FlexLove (mouse + love.touch); host-forwarded
--- mousepressed stays inert so Android's synthesized mouse path cannot
--- double-fire a tap (#553).  Touch move/press/release must still reach
+-- mousepressed mints no click, so Android's synthesized mouse path cannot
+-- double-fire a tap (#553).  It DOES hand the pointer back from the pad
+-- cursor (#781): a Linux boot with a joystick present arms it (see the
+-- getJoystickCount block in new()), and while it is active
+-- LauncherView.update refuses to mint mouse clicks, so a real press must
+-- win the pointer back even when the polled motion yield misses (X11
+-- multi-monitor coords).  Same contract as PadCursor.yieldToPointer for
+-- the overlay hosts.  Touch move/press/release must still reach
 -- FlexLove.touch* or scroll containers never drag on phones.
-function RomImporter:mousepressed() end
+function RomImporter:mousepressed()
+  self._padCursorActive = false
+end
 
 function RomImporter:touchpressed(id, x, y, dx, dy, pressure)
   if not self._flex then return end