10.9 on ubuntu have problem about user interface display

[pijag]

Hello every body.
I used Ubuntu 18.10 and installed FreeFileSync for sync data when I installed and run FreeFileSync, it has problems as shown in the image file. Who can help me?

[Zenju]

This is related to high-DPI settings. Do you have any steps on how to reproduce this?

[pijag]

This is related to high-DPI settings. Do you have any steps on how to reproduce this?

I do not have any steps, can you recommend me the reproduce this?

[Zenju]

Ideally, there would be steps that can be reproduced for Ubuntu 10.8 running in a VM, e.g. specific display settings, or whatever is triggering the above 288 DPI icons.

[martin1]

FreeFileSync after installation.png (213.4 KiB) Viewed 962 times

I have the same problem. It happens right after installation. I installed FreeFileSync 10.13 on Ubuntu 19.04.
Therefore the steps are:
Download 10.13
unpack the archive
double click the executable FreeFileSync
the same happens if I start it with ./FreeFileSync via commandline. In this case I get this messages:
Gtk-Message: 01:08:06.804: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
(FreeFileSync_x86_64:16001): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 01:08:06.984: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed
FreeFileSync_x86_64:16647): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 01:13:35.034: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed

(The second message appears twice.)
Installing the missing module with

sudo apt-get install libcanberra-gtk-module


does not solve the problem, but removes the first line of the error messages. the two Gtk-CRITICAL still appear.
I have 2 screens. One is set to 1920 x 1200 (16:10) and one is 1920:1080 (16:10). The error appears on both screens.

[Juan Nadie]

I also have the same problem of the big icons on the gui.

When I run FreeFileSync from the command line I have this message:

(FreeFileSync_x86_64:4082): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:50:04.687: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed

(FreeFileSync_x86_64:4082): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 11:50:04.687: IA__gtk_widget_set_size_request: assertion 'width >= -1' failed


I'm using Kubuntu 19.04.

For me the last version of FreeFileSync that works is 10.6

Any idea would help

[Zenju]

I have a hunch what this might be about. wxWidgets itself doesn't seem to be affected, just the icon sizes are. Let's make a test: The following version defers icon initialization to a later stage. Does this fix the problem?
https://www.mediafire.com/file/kw5qggqw62lj3yx/FreeFileSync_10.15_beta_Linux.tar.gz

[bgstack15]

This is GTK+3, right? Maybe you need to try setting some specific environment variables (from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#GDK_3_%28GTK+_3%29)

If you are using a window manager other than Gnome and have scaled the fonts using Xft.dpi, you must tell GDK to scale the UI as well. This will result in a further increase of the font-size for GDK apps, so you must undo the scaling of the text only.

To scale UI elements by a factor of two:

export GDK_SCALE=2


To undo scaling of text:

export GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5


So, to apply this here, try running this:

GDK_SCALE=1 /path/to/FreeFileSync


And report if that makes a difference.