Am Montag, 14. November 2016, 08:28:32 CET schrieb J Albrecht: > Dual Monitor set-up! The problem arose due to the use of dual monitors. > Once I closed the lid on my laptop and restarted darktable, the program > appeared at the proper magnification. When I opened the lid to reactivate > the laptop screen, the correct magnification remained. > > Just for the helluvit, I exited the program and restarted (with both > monitors active)… darktable opened at the earlier incorrect magnification. > > This is clearly a bug, albeit one with an easy work-around.
Yes, the problem is that darktable (or GTK) doesn't know which monitor will display darktable so it picks one. In your case it's the wrong one. Normally that isn't that big of a problem as the DPI are similar for most people. However, if one is an high DPI screen then you are in trouble. What I would do is closing the laptop lid and starting darktable from a terminal like this: darktable -d control | egrep "dpi|ppd" Write down the auto detected dpi and ppd numbers and put those into your darktablerc in those keys: [...] > > screen_dpi_overwrite=150 > > screen_ppd_overwrite=-1.0 Then it should still work when the laptop lid is open. [...] Tobias
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