said Slávek Banko: | Dne čt 7. října 2021 19:52:21 dep napsal(a): | > Following this morning's apt upgrades and a reboot for unrelated | > reasons, I've encounted unexpected behavior with parts of TDE. | > | > First, when the desktop starts, the mouse pointer normally becomes | > considerably smaller, reflecting the change from whatever the login | > screen resolution is to the TDE desktop resolution for my 1920x2160 | > screen, but now it stays big. | > | > The Kicker panel and its icons remain the size they've always been, | > but the font both for Kicker applications -- taskbar, calendar, the | > actual menu in KMenu -- have become minuscule. Really tiny, as in 6pt. | > tiny. The title bar font has also become much smaller. | > | > There are no changes I've found in the behavior of the applications | > themselves. In fact, when I move the mouse pointer into an application | > it reverts to the normally smaller size. So this appears to apply to | > the desktop, window decorations, and Kicker only. | > | > I've made no configuration changes. | > | > Any idea where I should look to fix what seems to have gotten broken? | > I presume there's some setting that the items mentioned abnove have in | > common, but damned if I have been able to figure out what it is. | > | > I'm running R14.0.11(DEVELOPMENT), which is pretty much always stable. | > -- | > dep | > | > Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album | > Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ | > ____________________________________________________ | | Hi dep, | | I assume this is the consequence of TDE/tdebase#229 - see | https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/pulls/229 | | Did you have the forced DPI value?

Yup. At 120.

| You can send results of these calls? | | kreadconfig --file kcmfonts --group General --key forceFontDPIEnable

$ kreadconfig --file kcmfonts --group General --key forceFontDPIEnable true

| kreadconfig --file kcmfonts --group General --key forceFontDPI

$ kreadconfig --file kcmfonts --group General --key forceFontDPI 120

| I believe that we will probably need to improve the code related to the | DPI settings contained in starttde.

As I mentioned in the follow-up, changing mouse theme, restarting, changing mouse theme back, restarting again fixed it. -- dep

Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

On Thursday 07 of October 2021 22:19:32 Mike Bird wrote:

On Thu October 7 2021 13:00:35 Slávek Banko wrote:

...

I believe that we will probably need to improve the code related to the DPI settings contained in starttde.

This is partially subjective and not repeatable so take it with a grain of salt.

It seemed to me the first time I started TDE with the new DPI code that some fonts were thinner. I checked TCC and the new option was Enabled and 120. I also took a screen grab of the KDE menu where the font thinning seemed most noticeable.

I tried some changes and reboots but after a while settled back on Enabled and 120 and now the fonts seem to me to appear as they did before the new DPI code.

It is possible that things appear differently the first time, or until the first edit, or until the first reboot.

I'm attaching a couple of clips of the KDE menu. I believe they were both taken at Enabled and 120. 2099 is the first login after the upgrade and 2101 was taken several reboots later.

--Mike

Thank you both for testing and outputs. Patch is ready to revise in TDE/tdebase#231:

https://mirror.git.trinitydesktop.org/gitea/TDE/tdebase/pulls/231

Note: Because it is patch for a shell script, you can simply apply it on your system and test without having to wait for approval and build new packages.

Cheers