Windows openeing too large, problems resizing

[KittyNin]

I'm having issues with some windows opening way, way, way too large for my screen. I know, just resize the window dummy, you're thinking, but I'm not able to.

When I try to use the mouse to drag the window shorter (top/bottom) the whole window just zooms off the the bottom of the screen at about a million miles an hour, and does not get any smaller. I have to use ALT+Spacebar and 'Move' to get it back with the arrow keys. Using ALT+Spacebar and 'Size' does not resize the window either - if I try the mouse, it flees again, and using the arrow keys produces no result.

Resizing side to side works just fine. Unfortunately, that doesn't get me at the buttons/text/fields/etc at the bottom of the window.

It's happening both on built-in calibre windows and windows for plugins. Is there any way to constrain how large the windows can open or any other way to resize a window that I'm not aware of? This is actually driving me quite crazy, because it's just so ridiculous and preventing me from doing things.

[kovidgoyal]

You didnt say what OS you are on. Try turning off "Adjust for high resolution screens" in Preferences->Look & feel

[DaltonST]

If you are out of ideas, and desperate, you could try this as a last resort:

[1] go to: C:\Users\KittyNin\AppData\Roaming\calibre.
[2] copy file gui.json to another folder to back it up.
[3] edit file gui.json with Notepad or another text editor.
[4] delete any logical sections within that file that look analogous to this and have a __class__ of "bytearray":

 "Plugin Updater plugin:version history dialog": {
    "__class__": "bytearray", 
    "__value__": "AdnQywADAAAAAAPqAAABcgAABQEAAAKFAAAD6wAAAZEAAAUAAAAChAAAAAAAAAAAB4AAAAPrAAABkQAABQAAAAKE"
  },

Be careful.

[5] Restart Calibre.

[6] If it will not restart, or you have even bigger problems, copy the backed-up original gui.json file back to where it came from, and restart Calibre. You will be back to where you were.



DaltonST

[KittyNin]

Sorry, this is on windows! Turning off "adjust for high resolution screens" in the settings did indeed solve my issue, thanks so much!