I am using a Linux KDE Plasma distro based on Ubuntu 16.04. I have a 27" Dell 4k monitor and I have KDE set to scale all my programs but Manager does not scale. The fonts and buttons are tiny. Is there any way to fix this so I can use Manager? I don’t know if this is an issue within Manager or Mono that it is built on.
I don’t really have anything to add here, other than suggesting that a screenshot may be helpful.
I’ve used Manager on Ubuntu and didn’t notice any issues, but not recently. So I’d be interested in seeing a screenshot, to compare with what I expect to see.
I rather suspect that 16.04 does not have the necessary kernel and other components to adequately deal with your 4k monitor and/or the graphics card and relevant drivers that go with it.
From memory, I think that you will find that later releases do make substantial inroads into handling this type of hardware, and the plan is to have it all fully implemented in any 18.04 based release.
I am sure that the people at the Plasma project would be able to assist with this
This may or may not be related to the fact that the program doesn’t support something along the lines of responsive css design whereby the view is changed according to the size of the screen. Manager is the only program that I use where I have to scroll left and right as well as up and down. This might be the cause of not scaling well on a 27 inch monitor.
Thanks for the replies. I didn’t expect such an active forum. This speaks well for Manager. I don’t think the issue is with my kernel or Linux in general. Everything that is native to KDE and based on Qt code scales great. Most of my GTK programs such as Firefox and LibreOffice also scale correctly. I do have a couple of older GTK programs though that I also have issue with. Since the original creator of Mono also created Gnome and the gnome tool kit, it could be something that is tied to older GTK code that might be used in Mono.
I have also tried Manager with a smaller screen and looks fine at native resolution. It also seems to scale OK in a Windows 10 virtual machine. So it appears to be something within Mono or Manager that does not recognize the scaling settings in my OS. It could also be something like dalacor stated above about not supporting responsive css.
Thanks for all the help and input. If anyone finds a way to control scaling in Manager please let me know.
Thanks
I will add that Manager does not respond to screen scaling commands in macOS either. It never has. But the Mac implementation also relies on Mono.
No scaling on Macs either? That is good to know. Really makes me think its a Mono issue. Hopefully they are working on this.
for people having this problem and yes it took a while. I’ve ubuntu 18.10 and highres display. As windowmanager I run i3 and had this problem too. Very annoing.
to solve it:
edit the manager-accounting file (is a shell script)
add before the exec line the following
export GDK_SCALE=2
save it
Now the manager-accounting is very readable on a high resolution screen
What is the actual file name please? I think this could be a great thing for people. Making Manager comfortable for all to use is a big bonus. I have heard whispers from the crew from time to time on this matter.
I installed the manager-accounting in /opt/manager-accounting. In that case the file is /opt/manager-accounting/manager-accounting.
In an other thread I found that when you have started manager-accounting you can switch to your browser and go to http://127.0.0.1:55667/businesses Then the program is displayed in the browser and you can zoom in your browser.
just upgraded on linux and now it is an appImage, so previous solution is not possible. But just create a script manager.sh with following
#!/bin/sh
export GDK_SCALE=2
Manager-x64.AppImage
make it executable and use it to start manager-accounting
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