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Artifact ID: 733976ee003a35ca8c369bccd01e6b5d3068f435
Page Name:Linux_DPI_Problems
Date: 2018-09-24 15:04:05
Original User: cancel
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On Linux, the size of the UI elements in Ripcord looks too large or there's too much spacing

Your DPI is probably not configured correctly.

Short answer

QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 ./Ripcord.AppImage

Long answer

Ripcord uses Qt's DPI scaling features to support any arbitrary DPI. Most Linux desktop software that runs outside of a full desktop environment (like KDE or Gnome) doesn't respect DPI scaling, or defaults to having it disabled. If you run your own minimalist desktop using something like a tiling window manager, there's a chance that Ripcord is the first GUI program you've used which will respect your DPI in X.

Some possible causes of crazy DPI values:

You may want to try fixing the issue at its source rather than telling Qt in Ripcord to ignore scaling.

Arch has a guide on configuring resolution and DPI manually in X.

If you just can't get it to work, go ahead and set QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 in your environment.

If it still doesn't work

Your distro may have put in a Qt style override environment variable. Add QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE= to get rid of it.

QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE= ./Ripcord.AppImage

You can also try running env | grep -i qt to see if anything is set in your env that might be interfering. (Especially check and see if a global Qt style override is set.)

If it's still not working

See if your distro put a qt.conf file somewhere and if it's modifying something related to DPI or UI scaling.