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Old 06-17-2020, 05:38 AM   #1
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Default Problems On High DPI (4K) Screen

I'm trying to get REAPER set up on a 4K/27" screen on Kubuntu 20.04, and there are two things I can't get to work.

The first is the font size. In libSwell.colortheme, there are only two options. The menu font size, which works fine, and the default font size which causes problems.

Setting the default font size to something big makes fixed size elements like the Preferences Menu and Buttons unreadable.



Is there a way to fix this? Also, the way the text is rendered is pretty ugly. Is there a way to smooth it?

My second issue is gap at the top between the menu bar an the rest. The first time I open a fresh install of reaper, it's not there. But then it appears every subsequent time.



Any help would be greatly appreciated
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Old 11-07-2020, 02:25 AM   #2
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Did you have any luck solving the font scaling issue? I have the same problem with a high dpi screen on Arch Linux/i3wm. Despite tweaking libSwell.colortheme and the Advanced gui preferences in Reaper, I also changed the Xft.dpi factor in the .Xressources file in my home directory, which works for most programs but doesn't affect the Reaper gui at all.
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Old 11-07-2020, 05:08 AM   #3
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Unfortunately, I haven't. I've switched to Manjaro/KDE in the meantime, and the problem persists there too.

I guess we'll have to wait for Cockos to fix it.
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Old 01-31-2021, 10:34 AM   #4
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I found the answer to the font scaling issue thanks to this thread: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=248775

In
Code:
~/.config/REAPER/reaper.ini
change the line
Code:
ui_scale=1
to whatever scale you want.

The weird gap is still their though. Any ideas?

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Old 03-09-2024, 03:36 AM   #5
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The first is the font size. In libSwell.colortheme, there are only two options. The menu font size, which works fine, and the default font size which causes problems.

Setting the default font size to something big makes fixed size elements like the Preferences Menu and Buttons unreadable.
This bothers me. Even at the same font size, different fonts have different dimensions of glyphs. So, if I change the font to something I like, the text doesn't fit there. It seems to work with the default font Calibri, but it has glyphs smaller than average.

I don't know who came up with the idea that text elements would have fixed sizes, but it seems like an obiviously bad idea.
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Old 03-10-2024, 01:13 PM   #6
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I found the answer to the font scaling issue thanks to this thread: https://forum.cockos.com/showthread.php?t=248775

In
Code:
~/.config/REAPER/reaper.ini
change the line
Code:
ui_scale=1
to whatever scale you want.

The weird gap is still their though. Any ideas?
The gap you have to grab right above where your first track would be and drag up. idk why this started happening, but it does.

The font thing is driving me CRAZY!

ui scaling does not solve it, changing every WALTER font does not solve it, using AnalogDessert's script does not solve it.

I am looking at the font size in a Video Processor code box, or MegaBaby sequencer, and it is BEYOND tiny, just like completely unreadable.

Honestly getting kind of pissed that this is still an issue 5 years after it was first pointed out (to my knowledge)
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Old 03-10-2024, 05:16 PM   #7
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Get Justin and Schwa involved.
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Old 03-14-2024, 12:54 PM   #8
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It is unfortunate. I'm just using an external monitor for the time being
to hold my reaper windows and ignoring the problem. My laptop screen
is highDPI.

You can adjust the font in the file libSwell-user.colortheme, which should be in your reaper
directory. Mine is currently set to:

Code:
# libSwell-user.colortheme
default_font_face NotoSansNerdFontPropo-Bold
default_font_size 14
menubar_font_size 14
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