Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly [SOLVED]

[Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu>]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Liam O'Toole wrote:

> On 2018-12-08, Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> wrote:
> > Greets!
> >
> > I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to
> > have worked though there are some oddities.
> >
> > now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Play," "Pause", etc.);
> > the interface in general seems to run on a different 'theme' than
> > before. the font size is ok.
>
> [...]
>
> > note a complication: I had Devuan installed and just did the Stretch
> > update on top of it. not sure of the relevance (thus I mention it).
>
> Me neither, but it does muddy the waters somewhat.
>
> > I don't recall the version of VLC on Jessie; it's "3.0.3 Vetinari"
> > here.
>
> You have upgraded from vlc2 to vlc3, and from qt4 to qt5.
>
> > I am using Trinity Desktop which maintains a version of KDE3.
>
> Meanwhile, kde3 uses qt3. It may be that qt4 had better backward
> compatibility than qt5. Have you tried running vlc3 in another desktop
> environment?

I think you are right about qt problems and you propose a nice test 
but, happily, it is now somewhat moot.

I did a smarter google search and found a solution; the following 
environment string does it:

export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0

for persistence across boots it's advised to put this in:

/etc/profile.d/gnome-qt.sh

I haven't tested this yet.

I want to thank all contributors to this thread! it helps to have the 
support with trouble-shooting and solving.

I have a problem with the menu items in OpenOffice being invisible 
unless the mouse crosses over them but may open a different thread. 
wonder if it is a related issue.

f.

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Felmon Davis