[scribus] UHD monitor problems

[Rodrigo Severo]

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On Thursday, January 2, 2020 4:57 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:

> I have a brand new laptop with a 4K screen (3840x2160), on which I use
> Xfce 4.12 on Xubuntu 18.04, up to date.
>
> The version of Scribus is 1.5.3. However, Scribus is unusable because
> at the top of the document window I see:
>
> FileEditItemInsertPageTableExtrasViewScripterWindowHelp
>
> In a font that is about 1.5mm high. Worse, if I click on any of them
> the menu is blank, completely missing. If I open a toolbar the font in
> the toolbar is OK, but the title at the top of the toolbar is in the
> same tiny size.
>
> I thought I'd look into Preferences to see if I could fix this, but I
> can't get into Preferences because the menus are all missing. I've had
> to fix an occasional minor item in other applications, but nothing like
> this.
>
> Any suggestions?

Is Scribus the only application with small menu issues?

You can go to systems (not scribus) "Settings -> Window Manager -> Style" and change the Theme to "Default-hdpi" or even "Default-xhdpi" but this will affect all systems.


Rodrigo