Wallet Dimensions Skewed

[Eumaios1212]

I've just recently downloaded Dogecoin Core 1.14.6 for Linux. When I run it, however, the wallet GUI is massive, while letters of words within the wallet are minuscule. Spent a couple hours working on it with admins within Dogecoin's Discord channel. No luck. They suggested I post here. Not sure what else to try.

Thank you.

[patricklodder]

Since you have an Nvidia card in there, this may be one of the known issues with the current Qt version we use. Could you try launching dogecoin-qt from a terminal and playing with these 2 environment variables:

export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1
export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0

Please let us know if anything changes when setting these.

[Eumaios1212]

Yes, this worked! Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.

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Since you have an Nvidia card in there, this may be one of the known issues with the current Qt version we use. Could you try launching dogecoin-qt from a terminal and playing with these 2 environment variables:

export

QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1

export

QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0

Please let us know if anything changes when setting these.

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[Eumaios1212]

Well, I spoke too quickly: the change doesn't endure. If I shut down and restart the computer, I always have to add that line again before restarting Doge. Is this expected? Maybe I should switch GPUs?

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------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, September 25th, 2022 at 9:32 PM, Eumaios @.***> wrote:

Yes, this worked! Thank you for getting back to me so quickly.

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------- Original Message ------- On Sunday, September 25th, 2022 at 11:25 AM, Old Dip Tracker @.***> wrote:

Since you have an Nvidia card in there, this may be one of the known issues with the current Qt version we use. Could you try launching dogecoin-qt from a terminal and playing with these 2 environment variables:

export

QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1

export

QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0

Please let us know if anything changes when setting these.

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[patricklodder]

Is this expected?

Yes, it is. How do you launch dogecoin-qt normally? You should add these environment variables to the launcher so that it picks it up every time, rather than setting this globally, so that it only does that for the Dogecoin wallet and software using different versions of Qt are not affected by this little "hack".

Maybe I should switch GPUs?

Not needed. We can make this work, I'm sure.

[Eumaios1212]

To launch, I just go to the GUI folder, right click and "run". I'm happy to do it another way.

How would I go about adding those variables to the launcher? A config file somewhere?

Thank you.

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------- Original Message ------- On Monday, September 26th, 2022 at 11:30 AM, Old Dip Tracker @.***> wrote:

Is this expected?

Yes, it is. How do you launch dogecoin-qt normally? You should add these environment variables to the launcher so that it picks it up every time, rather than setting this globally, so that it only does that for the Dogecoin wallet and software using different versions of Qt are not affected by this little "hack".

Maybe I should switch GPUs?

Not needed. We can make this work, I'm sure.

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[patricklodder]

You should be able to take the contributed .desktop file from here and change the Exec= line to be (with your dogecoin-qt path, not /path/to/):

Exec=env QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0 /path/to/dogecoin-qt %u

Then opening the .desktop file should apply the variables for you every time.

[Eumaios1212]

When I attempt to create a .desktop file with the following lines, I'm told "Error writing Doge.desktop: Permission denied"

Name=Dogecoin Core Comment=Connect to the Dogecoin P2P Network Exec=env QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0 /media/shawn/UbuntuSSD/Doge/dogecoin-1.14.6/bin> Terminal=false Type=Application Icon=dogecoin128 MimeType=x-scheme-handler/dogecoin; Categories=Office;Finance;

I'm sure I'm making a simple error. I'm only in week two of using any Linux distro--migrating from Windows (where Doge worked fine).

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------- Original Message ------- On Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 at 10:03 AM, Old Dip Tracker @.***> wrote:

You should be able to take the contributed .desktop file from here and change the Exec= line to be (with your dogecoin-qt path, not /path/to/):

Exec

=env

QT_SCALE_FACTOR

=1

QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR

=0 /path/to/dogecoin-qt %u

Then opening the .desktop file should apply the variables for you every time.

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[leuqarte]

To where are you creating/writing the .desktop file?

[Eumaios1212]

I assumed here:

/usr/share/applications

Perhaps I misunderstood. It is unfortunate that I am having to learn Linux/Ubuntu at the same time as fix this problem. I appreciate your patience with my ignorance.

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------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, September 29th, 2022 at 3:24 PM, leuqarte @.***> wrote:

To where are you creating/writing the .desktop file?

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[patricklodder]

You should be able to put it in ~/.local/share/applications to not need to make changes with root and keep everything in user space. If that doesn't exist yet, do:

mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications

[Eumaios1212]

Ok, I created and placed this .desktop file in this folder. It still does not load properly. Above it was mentioned that I should "open the .desktop file". I'm not sure what that means. To start the wallet and daemon, don't I have to run Dogecoin-qt ?

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------- Original Message ------- On Friday, September 30th, 2022 at 9:03 AM, Old Dip Tracker @.***> wrote:

You should be able to put it in ~/.local/share/applications to not need to make changes with root and keep everything in user space. If that doesn't exist yet, do:

mkdir -p

~

/.local/share/applications

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[alamshafil]

This is how I did it on my end:

1. Make the folder

   mkdir -p ~/.local/share/applications

2. Create the dogecoin.desktop

   nano ~/.local/share/applications/dogecoin.desktop

   Contents (make sure to update Exec line to location of dogecoin-qt)

   [Desktop Entry]
   Name=Dogecoin Core
   Comment=Connect to the Dogecoin P2P Network
   Comment[de]=Verbinde mit dem Dogecoin peer-to-peer Netzwerk
   Comment[fr]=Dogecoin, monnaie virtuelle cryptographique pair à pair
   Comment[tr]=Dogecoin, eşten eşe kriptografik sanal para birimi
   Exec=env QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0 /path/to/dogecoin-qt %u
   Terminal=false
   Type=Application
   Icon=dogecoin128
   MimeType=x-scheme-handler/dogecoin;
   Categories=Office;Finance;

   3. (optional) Update desktop database

      update-desktop-database

   4. (optional, need root) Install dogecoin icon

      wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dogecoin/dogecoin/master/share/pixmaps/dogecoin128.png # download icon
      sudo install -Dm644 dogecoin128.png /usr/share/pixmaps/dogecoin128.png # install icon
      rm dogecoin128.png # delete icon since installed

   Result (GNOME desktop):