Client: [Linux] [2.2.0] text-/iconsize problems

[hefee]

With v2.2.0 the texsize/iconsize is changed when moving the window from one screen to another. I have a multi screen setup (a laptop screen with a external monitor). This behaviour I only seen with owncloud-client.

My Desktop env is a plasma5/kf5/qt5 debian unstable.

[danimo]

I guess that one screen has a different DPI count than the other? In that case, the problem is that the interface _does not_ change size.

[hefee]

No OCC is changing its size itself. I can move the window half on the one screen half on the other. And if i come from the "small text" desktop the text is very small also on the other screen. And if I come from the other side the text is big also on the other screen. It only changed if i moved the window completly.

As I told before. OCC is the only application with that behaviour. All other applications have the same textsize on every screen.

[lckarssen]

I observe something similar (but not identical). After upgrading my (Ubuntu) Linux client to v2.2.0, the buttons and icons 'have grown'. The font size seems OK (like it was before upgrading), but the buttons and icons appear as in @hefee's second screenshot.
Note that this is on a laptop with only a single screen. The screen isn't HiDPI: 1920x1080 in a 14" laptop. Other applications are fine.

[dennisheitmann]

I can confirm @lckarssen 's observation. It is the same on XFCE 4.12 on xubuntu 16.04. The screen is a HDMI connected 1920x1080 monitor.

[dennisheitmann]

[guruz]

Which Qt versions do you guys use? This kind of stuff is supposed to be better with 5.6

[piratenpanda]

5.6.0 here and the same problem on arch

[lckarssen]

Just upgraded the client from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 on a different machine (this one runs Ubuntu 15.10 instead of 16.04). Here the size issue is not present.

On this machine it says Qt v4.8.6. On the other (Ubuntu 16.04) machine I have Qt v5.5.1.

[maxxer]

Just upgraded the client from 2.1.1 to 2.2.0 on a different machine (this one
runs Ubuntu 15.10 instead of 16.04). Here the size issue is not present.

I'm running 15.10 and at first I had no strings at all, now I don't have the Settings dialog anymore #4857

[guruz]

@jturcotte @danimo We think this is because of 9ea191f6 54c2c9ac

[nazar-pc]

Ubuntu 16.10 x64.
qt version 5.5.1 (what comes with Ubuntu)
ownCloud 2.2.0-4.1 package from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/isv:/ownCloud:/desktop/Ubuntu_16.04

I have laptop (its display disabled completely) with 4k monitor. And UI is scaled ridiculously.
Yes, resolution is big, but pixels density is pretty normal (27'').

Here is how it looks comparing to Dropbox window (whose fonts are as they should normally be):

[ghost]

I have the same issue. Running the same environment and distro as @hefee (Debian Unstable/Sid). I also have Xfce available (currently running it) and it does the same thing there. Another thing that's happening, is that when I close the settings window on the middle or right monitor (I have 3 monitors, 1 19" 1680x1050, 1 24" FHD and the laptop itself being 14" FHD acting like it's hidpi), it then opens on the laptop monitor as a huge window, starting in the top left corner and spanning all the way to the middle monitor for a bit. I have to resize it back to a normal size in order to actually use it.

When I close it on the laptop monitor and open it again, it appears with normal size on the middle monitor. Closing and opening it again using the tray icon blows it up to extreme proportions on the laptop monitor again. In other words, it doesn't remember the window size and position as it should.

As mentioned here, the text is also absurd on the different monitors. When in hidpi mode, text is big, like 16 or 18, but when on the external monitors it appears to be like size 6, really tiny and almost impossible to read. The buttons appear to stay the same size, no matter how big the fonts are (they are as big as needed to fit the large 'hidpi' font size).
What's strange, is that in Xfce, you can set a custom DPI as a global setting. That's set to 96 in my case. Xfce doesn't really do anything special with the different DPI monitors, it all appears the same. Except the Owncloud Client, that acts as if I have bad eyesight, or really good one, depending on the monitor the window is on.

[ckamm]

Could you try this test to check whether the theory @guruz mentioned above is correct? https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/4861#issuecomment-222125106

[ghost]

@ckamm, that works for me, fonts stay readable on all monitors and it doesn't 'blow up' like it used to. It does show the interface on the middle monitor all the time, but that's a minor thing and may be caused by my desktop environment, placing the window where the mouse cursor is.

[ckamm]

@PStokman Thanks for testing!

@danimo As I understand 9ea191f63de6e008cc0507f5e03881688434bff7 it was about improving behavior with Qt >=5.6. Maybe we can avoid these problems by not setting QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO for linux and Qt <5.6? (otoh, maybe we just don't know whether QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR causes the same issues..)

[hefee]

It also happens for the dolphin integration - but fullily enough here it is to big for all screens. See the textsize of dolphin in background (top left). This is the textsize i expect:

Using qt 5.5.1

[hefee]

@ckamm the workaround works for me too and fixing the issue. Additionally the bug with dolphin integration is solved, too.

(I only use sed on the owncloud binary not for any lib of the dolphin integration).

[danimo]

@hefee what exacty did you do?

[hefee]

• Find your "owncloud" binary
• Copy it to owncloud-test
• Run sed -i -e 's/QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO/DONTSETTHISVARIABLE__/' owncloud-test on it from the command line

like described in https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/4861#issuecomment-222125106

[guruz]

But @piratenpanda above mentioned he is on 5.6.0

[hefee]

The problem for @piratenpanda is a different issue, cause it uses an other #ifdef clause.

[guruz]

Can you guys try the latest nightly and report back that it is Ok now?

[ghost]

I use the version provided by Debian and they don't do nightly builds of the client. For the time being, I'm using the 'patched' version I made with the sed command noted earlier.

[nazar-pc]

@guruz, yes, Nightly on Ubuntu 16.10 looks good now.

[maxxer]

I confirm _owncloud-client_2.2.1-nightly201661-1.1_ works fine here as well (15.10)

[piratenpanda]

still present with 2.2.1, shall i file another bug?

[paolostivanin]

same here, with Archlinux testing and Gnome 3.20

[guruz]

@piratenpanda @paolostivanin What's your Qt version reported by the settings dialog in "General"?

[ckamm]

@piratenpanda @paolostivanin With the recent patches the behavior should be identical to 2.2.0. Are you testing with the 2.2.1 final version? If you do, the Qt version would be interesting (see @guruz comment)

[piratenpanda]

@ckamm @guruz It's 5.6.0 on latest arch

[paolostivanin]

Hi @ckamm ,
I am having this weird behavior since version 2.2.0.

pacman -Ss qt5|grep installed
extra/qt5-base 5.6.0-7 (qt qt5) [installed]
extra/qt5-declarative 5.6.0-1 (qt qt5) [installed]
extra/qt5-location 5.6.0-1 (qt qt5) [installed]
extra/qt5-sensors 5.6.0-1 (qt qt5) [installed]
extra/qt5-tools 5.6.0-2 (qt qt5) [installed]
extra/qt5-webchannel 5.6.0-1 (qt qt5) [installed]
extra/qt5-webkit 5.6.0-4 (qt qt5) [installed]
extra/qt5-xmlpatterns 5.6.0-1 (qt qt5) [installed]
community/qtkeychain 0.7.0-1 [installed]

pacman -Ss owncloud|grep installed
community/owncloud-client 2.2.1-1 [installed]

[ckamm]

Okay, the problem here is that the issue with Qt >=5.6.0 was only addressed by @ogoffart's patch 6ccd9e8, which did not make it into 2.2.1. @danimo fyi.

That means this should be ready to test for the next release.

[jnweiger]

Linux packages not yet released. Patch added just in time for 2.2.1:
https://github.com/owncloud/administration/commit/8c6da668f9b575c03b9f35d48a39f012db2c560c

[jnweiger]

Patch is in. Publishing 2.2.1 Linux packages at https://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=isv%3AownCloud%3Adesktop&package=owncloud-client
This URL is already linked at https://owncloud.org/install/#install-clients
@Kawohl

[jnweiger]

closing here. Please reopen if there is more...