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  after Stretch VLC is ugly Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> - 2018-12-08 10:40 +0100
    Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly Andrew McGlashan <andrew.mcglashan@affinityvision.com.au> - 2018-12-08 12:10 +0100
      Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> - 2018-12-08 19:50 +0100
    Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-12-09 02:30 +0100
      Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly [SOLVED] Felmon Davis <davisf@union.edu> - 2018-12-09 06:20 +0100

#203160 — after Stretch VLC is ugly

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.

I have tried the "forced window style" option under "preferences" but 
none of the various options affect the size of the control buttons. 
also looked at various 'skins' (awful!), no luck.

I have purged and re-installed VLC also to no avail. (used synaptic to 
catch various debris, VLC sprays all over the place.)

the only other application I've found which has undergone similar 
changes is Pan - the menu icons have a more 'pastel' look which I 
don't appreciate but otherwise it's ok. (I use a very limited set of 
'apps' so there may be surprises lurking.)

tried finding an older version. they seem geared to Ubuntu; tried 
compiling, got an error about not finding 'debus-1'; figured I didn't 
want to obsess my way into another rabbit-hole. however I'm happy to 
compile if that's the ticket.

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).

I don't recall the version of VLC on Jessie; it's "3.0.3 Vetinari" 
here.

I am using Trinity Desktop which maintains a version of KDE3.

f.

-- 
Felmon Davis

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#203162

On 8/12/18 8:24 pm, Felmon Davis wrote:
> Greets!
> 
> I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have
> worked though there are some oddities.

High DPI changes perhaps?

A.

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#203176

On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Andrew McGlashan wrote:

>
>
> On 8/12/18 8:24 pm, Felmon Davis wrote:
>> Greets!
>>
>> I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have
>> worked though there are some oddities.
>
> High DPI changes perhaps?

DPI is set to 96.

f.

-- 
Felmon Davis

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#203191

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?

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#203197 — Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly [SOLVED]

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.

-- 
Felmon Davis

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