In Full Screen Mode, the user interface is out of screen (Windows 10 Pro)
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#218 In Full Screen Mode, the user interface is out of screen (Windows 10 Pro)
I am using Windows 10 Pro. If I install Tux Paint for 'All User', Start Menu folder is installed successful. But if I choose to run in Full Screen Mode, the user interface is too big and out of screen. It is useless to set the screen size in Tux Paint Config.
Hi, I am not able to reproduce in a W7, could you please explain a little more?
Is that Tux Paint displays scaled up and thus you can not access the toolbars?
Or is that Tux Paint displays displaced to some side?
A screenshot could be usefull too.
Things that may be worth considering are if your computer runs some sort of accessibility stuff that makes the screen display at different resolution from windowed or if it runs some sort of magnification on the screen.
HTH
Pere
I am also running Windows 10 and was able to replicate this bug in v0.9.23. Initially, I did not change anything in the config file, and the progress bar and text instructions at the bottom of the Tux Paint window were obscured by the Windows taskbar.
Like Terence, I tried changing the screen resoultion in the Tux Paint Config; this did not impact the fullscreen resolution. Additionally, I tried checking the "Use native screen resolution in fullscreen mode" checkbox, but this also did not resolve the issue.
Any chance anyone can post a screenshot or two? Thanks!
@qianlong I have a feeling your bug (https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/bugs/233/) might be the same as this one, so will close it (for now at least). Please follow this ticket.
@terencenwk and @kmallen can either of you share any further details or screenshots? Are newer versions of Tux Paint still doing this for you, as well?
Thanks!
Hi, I'm pretty sure I've isolated the setting causing the issue. It's a windows 10 display setting. My monitor has native resolution of 2560x1440, which makes everything tiny. So there's a setting under Display >> Scale and Layout called "Change the size of text, apps and other items". Mine was set to 150%, while windows recommends I set it to 200%. When I set it to 100% I can't read a thing on my screen, but Tux Paint runs fine (see screenshot).
I'm also on Windows 10 Pro, though I'm guessing this setting is not specific to the Pro version.
Hopefully that setting is accessible and the fix shouldn't be too difficult. Thanks for all that you do!
I'm not sure exactly what the workaround is right now. I haven't played around with setting the screen resolution as the current setting (800x600, default, see screenshot) doesn't seem to do anything in full screen mode. I can run in windowed mode, but the ideal is of course that my daughter can't get to other apps :P
Last edit: Mitchell Ahrens 2021-09-09
Hi, I think here some mixed problems:
"When I set it to 100% I can't read a thing on my screen, but Tux Paint runs fine (see screenshot)."
You can workaround this by setting the size of the buttons to something bigger, in the bottom-right of your screenshot of tuxpaint-config.
"I'm not sure exactly what the workaround is right now. I haven't played around with setting the screen resolution as the current setting (800x600, default, see screenshot) doesn't seem to do anything in full screen mode."
Not sure if this is related to a recently closed bug, see
https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/bugs/201/
And finally the bug of the title:
"So there's a setting under Display >> Scale and Layout called "Change the size of text, apps and other items". Mine was set to 150%, while windows recommends I set it to 200%. "
and the tuxpaint window gets bigger in fullscreen(150%?) and only displayed the 100% centered so all toolbars end out of the screen,
I've just reproduced on an emulated W10,
The first impression is that SDL gets a wrong size for the window and fails to scale it down
The second option could be that SDL gets the right size but because of the windows scale setting SDL scales up the window.
Need to investigate more...
also this:
" I can run in windowed mode, but the ideal is of course that my daughter can't get to other apps :P"
The mouse grabbing option is useful here for windowed Tux Paint, in the mouse/keyboard tab of tuxpaint-config, and if you disable the "Quit" button in the simplification tab it will be harder to access other apps
Windowed tuxpaints also get bigger when the windows scale settings are in play, see the screenshot of a linux and windows tuxpaints both at 800x600 and see how the windows one is 150% bigger.
I need to setup again my compiling tools for windows, this may take some time...
Mentioned this on the Known Issues page on the website; thanks!
Well, just tested a SDL2 build and it doesn't show this bug, I still haven't found a way to solve it for SDL1.2 but I imagine that if SDL2 works right then one could backport the things that make it work right into SDL1.2, looks complicated at first glance
At a glance, https://sourceforge.net/p/tuxpaint/bugs/200/ and this seem the same. Shall I close one?
They look both describing the same problem, so I'd close one, yes.
Closing; see #200. Thanks!
Last edit: William Kendrick 2021-09-28