diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 65a520b..d1b3df7 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -146,8 +146,11 @@ mode or the span. **A signal badge dragged onto a scope window's plot lands ther
 drop the main plot takes, into that window's own row set, on the cell the pointer is over — and
 the signal page's *Plot on* buttons list **every window**: one group per window (named, `In
 "plot 2"`), one button per plot of it. A right-click on a scope window's plot opens **its own
-menu** — y axis (auto or a fixed range), fit, remove a trace — acting on that window's rows; a
-detached window's menu carries **Attach back to the main window** beside them.
+menu** — y axis (auto or a fixed range), *Fit X axis*, *Fit all*, remove a trace — acting on that
+window's rows (the x fit resets the **shared** time span, so every view follows); a detached
+window's menu carries **Attach back to the main window** beside them. A window that cannot paint
+says so in its own title after two seconds (and on stderr): a blank plot is indistinguishable from
+a context that failed, and the sentence names which.
 mode or the span.
 
 **The window.** The plot is the window. Under it sits a fixed-height **badge bar** (36 px). Its left
diff --git a/src/ui.cpp b/src/ui.cpp
index c0308a5..d615d0b 100644
--- a/src/ui.cpp
+++ b/src/ui.cpp
@@ -3711,15 +3711,38 @@ void on_scope_y_fixed_clicked(GtkButton* b, gpointer user) {
   scope_menu_dismiss(b);
 }
 
-/// The y fit of a scope window: the window's x follows the main window's span, so the fit is the
-/// y axes alone -- `fit_all()`'s x reset would be undone by the next frame's mirror.
-void on_scope_fit_clicked(GtkButton* b, gpointer) {
+/// The y fit of a scope window: the y axes alone.
+void on_scope_fit_y_clicked(GtkButton* b, gpointer) {
   App::ScopeWindow* scope = scope_menu_scope(b);
   if (scope == nullptr || scope->rows == nullptr) return;
   scope->rows->set_y_auto(scope_menu_row(b), true);
   scope_menu_dismiss(b);
 }
 
+/// The x fit of a scope window is the main window's: there is **one** time span for every view,
+/// and the scope mirrors it -- so the fit resets the shared x range and the next frame mirrors
+/// the result back, in this window and in every other.
+void on_scope_fit_x_clicked(GtkButton* b, gpointer user) {
+  App& app = *static_cast<App*>(user);
+  app.rows->fit_x();
+  app.notice = "x back to the " + format_window(app.rows->time_window()) + " window";
+  app.notice_until_us = g_get_monotonic_time() + 3 * G_TIME_SPAN_SECOND;
+  scope_menu_dismiss(b);
+}
+
+/// Both fits: this window's y, the shared x.
+void on_scope_fit_all_clicked(GtkButton* b, gpointer user) {
+  App& app = *static_cast<App*>(user);
+  App::ScopeWindow* scope = scope_menu_scope(b);
+  if (scope == nullptr || scope->rows == nullptr) return;
+  scope->rows->set_y_auto(scope_menu_row(b), true);
+  app.rows->fit_x();
+  app.notice = "y fitted to the data, x back to the " +
+               format_window(app.rows->time_window()) + " window";
+  app.notice_until_us = g_get_monotonic_time() + 3 * G_TIME_SPAN_SECOND;
+  scope_menu_dismiss(b);
+}
+
 void on_scope_remove_clicked(GtkButton* b, gpointer) {
   App::ScopeWindow* scope = scope_menu_scope(b);
   if (scope == nullptr || scope->rows == nullptr) return;
@@ -3785,8 +3808,10 @@ void on_scope_right_click(GtkGestureClick* gesture, int, double x, double y, gpo
   g_signal_connect(y_auto, "clicked", G_CALLBACK(on_scope_y_auto_clicked), user);
   GtkWidget* y_fixed = row_btn("Y axis: fixed range...");
   g_signal_connect(y_fixed, "clicked", G_CALLBACK(on_scope_y_fixed_clicked), user);
-  GtkWidget* fit = row_btn("Fit Y axis");
-  g_signal_connect(fit, "clicked", G_CALLBACK(on_scope_fit_clicked), user);
+  GtkWidget* fit_x = row_btn("Fit X axis");
+  g_signal_connect(fit_x, "clicked", G_CALLBACK(on_scope_fit_x_clicked), user);
+  GtkWidget* fit = row_btn("Fit all");
+  g_signal_connect(fit, "clicked", G_CALLBACK(on_scope_fit_all_clicked), user);
 
   // One removal per trace on the plot, flat rather than as a second view: a scope window holds
   // at most its own figure's traces, and the menu is small.
@@ -4610,6 +4635,31 @@ gboolean tick(gpointer user) {
       //   scope->area->set_figure(&scope->rows->figure());
       // }
       if (scope->detached) sync_scope_attach(*app, *scope);
+      // **A window that cannot paint says so.** A blank plot is indistinguishable from a
+      // context that failed or an area that never got a frame, and the report ("nothing is
+      // drawn, no axes") is exactly what this turns into a sentence: the window's own title
+      // carries the reason, and stderr carries it with the window's name.
+      if (scope->area != nullptr && scope->paint_checks >= 0 && scope->paint_checks < 120) {
+        ++scope->paint_checks;
+        if (scope->paint_checks == 120) {
+          const plot::Status st = scope->area->init_status();
+          const plot::u64 painted = scope->area->frames_painted();
+          if (!st || painted == 0) {
+            const std::string why =
+                st ? std::string("the plot painted no frame in two seconds")
+                   : std::string("GL context failed: ") + st.message;
+            std::fprintf(stderr, "[scope] window '%s' is not drawing: %s\n",
+                         scope->name.c_str(), why.c_str());
+            std::fflush(stderr);
+            if (scope->window != nullptr) {
+              const char* current = gtk_window_get_title(scope->window);
+              gtk_window_set_title(scope->window,
+                                   ((current != nullptr ? std::string(current) + " — " : "") + why)
+                                       .c_str());
+            }
+          }
+        }
+      }
       if (scope->widget != nullptr) gtk_gl_area_queue_render(GTK_GL_AREA(scope->widget));
     }
   }
diff --git a/src/ui_app.hpp b/src/ui_app.hpp
index 7d67ad0..560e9e6 100644
--- a/src/ui_app.hpp
+++ b/src/ui_app.hpp
@@ -233,6 +233,10 @@ struct App {
     double pointer_x = 0.0;
     double pointer_y = 0.0;
     bool pointer_valid = false;
+    /// Frames this window's area was watched for its first paint: a window whose GL context failed
+    /// or that never paints says so in its own title (and on stderr) instead of staying a blank
+    /// rectangle nobody can diagnose.
+    int paint_checks = 0;
     /// The area's initial plot, owned here: `PlotArea::create()` wants a `Plot&` that
     /// outlives the widget, and sharing the main window's placeholder would hand two areas
     /// one plot the moment the figure mode is ever left.