[Closed] Issues with Version 6

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by rracoon01

Will try that but I also note now that all of the dialog screens like convert and overdrive customization are too big for the screen and you can't hit the cancel or OK buttons even after trying to move the screen around and of course on those screens there is not minimize button to change the size.

Originally Posted by rracoon01

Changing the screen resolution fixed these problems, though I don't know how they got out of wack right at the time that I also updated to calibre 6.0

Mine were also all out of whack, but not because the Windows display resolution settings were changed.

I've had to adjust every window size and position individually, mostly they were too big and half off the screen, and I still stumble on misplaced/sized windows as I use features I don't use much.

Kovid suggested it was probably the Qt user interface framework package that calibre uses.

BR

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

I've had to adjust every window size and position individually, mostly they were too big and half off the screen, and I still stumble on misplaced/sized windows as I use features I don't use much.
BR

Here too. I carefully adjusted all my column widths in my default view after reading Mr Goyal's "it's a QT6 thing" response, then found yesterday that the changes needed to be reapplied when I opened a saved search in View Manager

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Here too. I carefully adjusted all my column widths in my default view after reading Mr Goyal's "it's a QT6 thing" response, then found yesterday that the changes needed to be reapplied when I opened a saved search in View Manager

Hmm. Absolutely nothing changed here, either after installing 6.0 or 6.1. I always use the View Manager.

[ownedbycats]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Here too. I carefully adjusted all my column widths in my default view after reading Mr Goyal's "it's a QT6 thing" response, then found yesterday that the changes needed to be reapplied when I opened a saved search in View Manager

Did you remember to 'save view columns' after adjusting? I've been caught by that multiple times.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by ownedbycats

Did you remember to 'save view columns' after adjusting? I've been caught by that multiple times.

Thanks for the tip, I'll check!

[kovidgoyal]

Qt 6 no longer has the ability to control how it responds to high dpi on windows (modulo some environment variables). Qt 5 used to have that ability. Your saved windows sizes from calibre 5 were likely at a different scaling factor causing the issues. Once you resize them under calibre 6 they should work fine.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Qt 6 no longer has the ability to control how it responds to high dpi on windows (modulo some environment variables). Qt 5 used to have that ability. Your saved windows sizes from calibre 5 were likely at a different scaling factor causing the issues. Once you resize them under calibre 6 they should work fine.

Confirmed, thank you both!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

Qt 6 no longer has the ability to control how it responds to high dpi on windows (modulo some environment variables). Qt 5 used to have that ability. Your saved windows sizes from calibre 5 were likely at a different scaling factor causing the issues. Once you resize them under calibre 6 they should work fine.

I resize the Live CSS Window and every time I restart the editor, it slides down. Can this be fixed?

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by Uncle Robin

Here too. I carefully adjusted all my column widths in my default view after reading Mr Goyal's "it's a QT6 thing" response, then found yesterday that the changes needed to be reapplied when I opened a saved search in View Manager

Originally Posted by Sirtel

Hmm. Absolutely nothing changed here, either after installing 6.0 or 6.1. I always use the View Manager.

Wondering if it could be something to do with fractional Windows Display Scaling, mine is 125% (Recommended). If I install a fresh portable the windows are all too big and oddly placed.

BR

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

Wondering if it could be something to do with fractional Windows Display Scaling, mine is 125% (Recommended). If I install a fresh portable the windows are all too big and oddly placed.

BR

Try setting the the following environment variable and see how you get on.

QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=0

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

Try setting the the following environment variable and see how you get on.

QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=0

That makes windows smaller which means I would have to adjust them all again - so I'll leave it as is.

Perhaps Uncle Robin and Sirtel could disclose their display scaling setting, that might go some way to disproving my fractional scaling theory.

BR

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

That makes windows smaller which means I would have to adjust them all again - so I'll leave it as is.

Perhaps Uncle Robin and Sirtel could disclose their display scaling setting, that might go some way to disproving my fractional scaling theory.

BR

I was stunned to find that my display scaling settings are as follows, I thought it was at 125%!

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by BetterRed

That makes windows smaller which means I would have to adjust them all again - so I'll leave it as is.

Perhaps Uncle Robin and Sirtel could disclose their display scaling setting, that might go some way to disproving my fractional scaling theory.

BR

I'm using a 125% scale setting and I've turned off highDPI and it works well. I had it off for version 5 and when I switched to 6.1, I had to turn it off.

One of the things with highDPI being off makes better is the look of fonts.

[DiapDealer]

If you truly want Qt6 to handle fractional scale settings in the same way it did in Qt5 (with Calibre's highDPI setting set to "on"). You want to use QT_SCALE_FACTOR_ROUNDING_POLICY = Round (as mentioned earlier in this thread). Qt6's default is to pass the fractional settings "as is".

I would only recommend using QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=0 if you were in the habit of explicitly turning off highDPI scaling in previous Qt5 versions of Calibre.

[Uncle Robin]

Originally Posted by DiapDealer

Qt6's default is to pass the fractional settings "as is".

Since resetting my column widths was the only impact, and that only had to be done once for each view, it's not a biggie for me