Not allowed to use with too small screen

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Start up program with 1366x768 screen.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I'd expect to be allowed to use the program, instead I get a message because my 
screen is too short by 96px (864 as opposed to 768).

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.6.0 on Archlinux 64bit

Please provide any additional information below.
This is ridiculous.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by supersam...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 4:36

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I have a 19' lcd monitor, max resolution is 1366x768. I my work we have another 
48 monitors like this, nobody can't use this app.

Original comment by pgauna@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 6:01

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This issue also affects my production laptop, which has a 1366x768 maximum size 
screen. That seems like it's a pretty common resolution. What exactly is the 
issue? Is there a reason the program requires those extra 96 pixels? Why not 
just make the window size variable like other video editing software? Seems a 
little odd to require 1152x864.

Original comment by mikefree...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 6:22

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My laptop has the same resolution as pgauna and mikefree. I'm running Mint 13 
x86_64 and would love to try Flowblade out. A resolution would be much 
appreciated. Thank you.

Original comment by bruc...@gmail.com on 7 Jun 2012 at 7:48

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Same here! I would like to try it as an alternative to openshot but can't get 
the software to open due to screen resolution.

Original comment by moster...@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2012 at 1:59

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I have the same problem, I use a dual screen set up and I too got the message 
about resolutions, I have tried turning 1 monitor off and setting a different 
resolution, but unless I use 1 monitor at 1280x1024 the application throws up 
the error, it's not very practical to switch off a monitor and change the 
resolution every time I need to use an application.

I find it strange that the application behaves like this as most people will 
resize an application window to suit their individual screen size, or maybe 
that's just me.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 (64bit) with 2 monitors set at their standard 
resolutions, that being 1366x768.

Apart from that it looks like a good application to use, just needs a tweak :-)

Original comment by Teckno.m...@gmail.com on 8 Jun 2012 at 9:05

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I also am having the same issue. I have a 1280 x 800 screen and it says it 
needs 1152 x 864. I had my hopes high for this app in order to finally lose 
open shot. I'm also running Ubuntu 12.04 (32 bit). Seems like a great app, just 
needs a solution to the screen resolution issue.

Original comment by cizko...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2012 at 5:26

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I've managed to get it to work by commenting out the screen size check. There 
was a bit of overlap inside the controls, so i've added a few scrollwindows to 
you can see everything. All working on my 1366x768 screen as far as i know, I 
haven't checked if the video editing bit works though.

See the attached patch, you may need to edit the patch filenames so it works.

Original comment by supersam...@gmail.com on 17 Jun 2012 at 5:47

Attachments:

• flowblade.patch

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There are many possible solutions to this problem, all which have high impact 
application design and code.

The relatively high required default vertical resolution in this version seems 
definitely a mistake, as 1366x768 screen resolution laptops seem to be much 
more common then i thought.

This will be fixed in next version which should come October or November 2012.

Original comment by janne.li...@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2012 at 6:10

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Added myself as owner

Original comment by janne.li...@gmail.com on 18 Jun 2012 at 6:15

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Please, release early, release often! This is the most important bug at the 
moment!

Original comment by stephen....@gmail.com on 19 Jun 2012 at 1:11

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Supersam is on the right track here with commenting out the screen size check. 
Works for me although it took me a while to find the right file to edit. Just 
do a search for app.py. It should be in your /usr/share/pyshared/Flowblade 
folder. Screen check is on line 127-130.

Original comment by cizko...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2012 at 5:31

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Sorry, my patch is used on the source code before using setup.py to install - 
otherwise all the code gets compiled to object code, so i think it'll still run 
the unpatched code.

And janne - bugfixes definitely should not wait for major releases... You even 
have the minor release numbers on your version number, so why wait?

Original comment by supersam...@gmail.com on 20 Jun 2012 at 4:04

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Just deleting those lines 127-30 in /usr/share/pyshared/Flowblade/app.py worked 
for me. No need to recompile.

Original comment by PaulBurn...@gmail.com on 21 Jun 2012 at 6:32

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i get 

"Minimum screen dimensions for this application are 1152 x 864. Your screen 
dimensions are 1280 x 800."

using archlinux.

Original comment by snd.no...@gmail.com on 8 Jul 2012 at 11:26

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how to install patch

Original comment by fachryja...@labelfanoy.com on 9 Jul 2012 at 5:48

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The command is "patch - p0 < flowblade.patch" on linux

You'll need to unpack the tarchive, so that you have the flowblade-0.6.0 
folder. Place the patch and run the command in the folder containing the 
flowblade-0.6.0 folder. 

Original comment by supersam...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2012 at 9:12

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Btw, this is all before using setup.py to install

Original comment by supersam...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2012 at 9:13

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i think is "patch -p0 < flowblade.patch", without the Space between - and p0

Original comment by stephen....@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2012 at 12:27

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Sorry, typo. 

Original comment by supersam...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2012 at 2:34

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Fixed in repository. Feature will be in next release.

Minimum screen requirements are now 1152 x 768.

You can try repository version to test on small screens. See wiki 
TestingRepositoryVersion for instructions.

Original comment by janne.li...@gmail.com on 12 Sep 2012 at 8:46

• Changed state: Patched

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Original comment by janne.li...@gmail.com on 4 Dec 2012 at 10:50

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