Wat going on ???

[Soundbastel]

For ages now, under Linux Mint, whenever I start the app image – no matter which one – the tool is displayed as oversized (see screenshot), and there's NO way to adjust it. What's the point of that?
https://ibb.co/KcpHN6j0

[musikbear]

First off, Welcome to the Forum Soundbastel!
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For ages now, under Linux Mint, whenever I start the app image – no matter which one – the tool is displayed as oversized (see screenshot), and there's NO way to adjust it. What's the point of that?
https://ibb.co/KcpHN6j0

Your screenshot does not load, but i think i know your problem.
Linux can scale the UI with parameters in a script.
as root user create a file and name it

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gnome-qt.sh

Place this file in

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/etc/profile.d directory

Open the file in editor and type :

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export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0

You may have to try different SCALE_FACTOR= -before you find one that works for you
Only whole numbers works without screen artefacts

[Soundbastel]

The link works and the image loads, so the problem must be on your end.

Renaming and scripting doesn't seem to work, and frankly, I don't see why I should have to mess around with it myself just because the developers can't seem to fix it. This bug hasn't just appeared yesterday. And don't tell me it's free, what do you expect? Every job has to be done properly, regardless of whether it's free or not. I call that simply sloppy work.

And strangely enough, the app images don't work with the Nvidia graphics card; my laptop has an AMD onboard card, so the problem isn't there.

[messmerd]

Try adjusting the scale factor manually.

For example:

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QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.5 ./lmms

You can find more information about this and other related environment variables here: https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/highdpi.html#env ... -reference

[Soundbastel]

There should be a proper German instruction manual or tutorial, not just something thrown together that you can copy and do; that doesn't help at all.

[Soundbastel]

It's the same old story: you guys just plod along with the "help yourself" attitude because the developers are too lazy to fix their bugs. Pathetic behavior.

[Monospace]

I understand that some Linux users may be unfamiliar with the way FOSS works.

There is no duty, and nobody is getting paid to work for LMMS. There are only whole real people trying to make the program better in as many ways as they can.

And talking like this about developers who contribute to the program out of nothing but courtesy, and who care to help you with your problem anyway, is not appropriate behaviour.

I request you to understand the nature of the program and the people behind it before making any statements about them. Every developer was a user who decided they wanted a feature enough to make it themselves.

You can contribute yourself to making LMMS scalable too, if you are interested. That is how it works.

On the matter of the nature of FOSS programs and contributing features you want to see:
If you care about our manual being in German I encourage you to help with translating our manual into German. We have a translator working on a manual translation of their language because they cared about there being a translation in it. And we would benefit from more contributors to the manual.

It seems you are interested in contributing to or translating the manual, so if you are you can respond with an affirmative and we can discuss further.