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Laurent Jospin
Asked: 2019-01-03 07:32:39 +0800 CST

scribus interface do not scale correctly on ubuntu budgie 18.04

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I just installed ubuntu budgie 18.04 on my new computer. I installed the set of tools that I use on my linux workstations including krita (via appimage), blender (with the files from blender.org), kdenlive (via appimage) and scribus-ng (via ppa).

I have a problem with scribus and krita: the buttons, menus, icons, ... are huge and pixelized. But the text is at a standard size. Both program are unusable without correction.

For krita I went in the configuration file and remove hidpi support (there is such an option). Now it works like a charm. But for scribus there is no such option. I tried to launch it with QT_SCALE_FACTOR=0.6 and it is still barely usable as the text decrease too.

I though that it would be a problem with Qt, but it seems not, as kdenlive worked perfectly out of the box. Still, with appimage it's hard to be sure.

Is there some option I'm missing somewhere ? Could it be that my screen (HP compaq la2405wg) is sending misleading hidpi informations ?

display qt budgie appimage scribus

1 Answers

  1. With Debian testing it works OK with the latest Scribus code.

    The problem seems to be solved with the most current (available) versions of Qt and Scribus.

    I would not suggest you to install newer versions of Qt than what Ubuntu provides, but you could try to install scribus-trunk instead of scribus-ng. There might have been some progress on this matter since the release of Scribus 1.5.4.

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