PI opens too "big" to fit on my screen

[Mark de Regt]

Hi,

I have WQHD/2560x1440 screen, operating at native resolution.  PI has always worked just fine on this laptop.

All of a sudden, it doesn't "fit" on the screen, spilling over to the right of the screen and below the bottom of the screen.  I have tried everything in "view" to no avail.

I cannot use it this way.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Mark

[Philip de Louraille]

There are a few ways of doing this on a Mac, maybe they'll work on other OSes? Here are two:
1) click on green button on top left
2) select the Windows menu within PI and choose: Reset Maximization Limit

[Mark de Regt]

Thanks for trying, but no joy.  There is no green dot in my version, and reset maximization limit does nothing.

[Mark de Regt]

I've uninstalled PI-windows-x86_64-01.08.04.1195-20151218-c, and gone back to PI-windows-x86_64-01.08.03.1123-20141118-c, and all is well.  The other, slightly older version of 1.08.04 I have also had the same bug.

[msmythers]

Mark

It might help to have some more information. What make and model of computer? Is this a laptop? What OS are you running. I myself am running a Windows 7 box with an Acer monitor at 2560x1440 and an older Nvidia card with no screen issues.


Mike

[Mark de Regt]

Mark

It might help to have some more information. What make and model of computer? Is this a laptop? What OS are you running. I myself am running a Windows 7 box with an Acer monitor at 2560x1440 and an older Nvidia card with no screen issues.


Mike

Sure.  Asus Zenbook UX301L laptop, running Win 10 Pro, with an i7 processor.  Intel Iris Graphics 5100 card, as much as I can tell.  It's a very good laptop, about 18 months old.

Note that it works just fine with the slightly older version of PI, PI-windows-x86_64-01.08.03.1123-20141118-c, but not with either 1.08.04 version that I've tried.

[Philip de Louraille]

In the $HOME/Library/PixInsight folder there is a PixInsight.plist (for Macs).
There must be an equivalent for Windows.
Anyways: two parameters control the geometry of the main window
000.MainWindow.Geometry.PrimaryScreenHeight
000.MainWindow.Geometry.PrimaryScreenWidth

Make sure those two numbers do not exceed your screen resolution

[LarryC]

I have the same problem on my Win 8.1 PC and was about to post the same question.  The PI window always opens slightly too large for the monitor and I have to re-size.  If anyone knows where the Windows version of the Mac folder posted above is, it would be very helpful.


Larry

[niteman1946]

Hi Group,
I'm operating on a Dell XPS8300 with Win 7, 64 bit.  Monitor resolution is max'd at 1400x900.
I've had somewhat similar problems with the PI's window size.  It would open to fit the page, and then after some image manipulation, the window would jump up slightly in size.  Icons on the upper right corner would disappear from the page.  The bar at the bottom of the page would drop off.  A slight tug at the upper edge would snap the window back into size.  Then after the next operation, the screen would jump again and the exercise had to be repeated.
This occurred with 1195, 1193 and (I think) some earlier versions.
I found that by going into Edit/Core UI Resources and changing the Font Resolution (dip) from 100 (default) to 85, the window properly fit the screen and did not hop around.  My best fit was the 85 value.

[brew]

I am also having problems with the screen size of PI.

I often run on a laptop, just the laptop screen. PI has become very awkward to use.

1) The PI window is a bit bigger than the physical screen. The main irritation here is that the bottom status bar area is not visible. I can click on View Full  Screen in the menu and the screen will momentarily size itself appropriately, but as soon as I move an image or window it goes back to the bigger size.

2) There are no window decorations (minimize, maximize etc). The task bar also does not show. This makes it awkward to  get to any other windows.

I am running PC laptop, Win10, PI 1.8.04.1195. How can I at least get it to run in Full Screen mode all the time?

[msmythers]

You might try changing the global preferences screen settings at startup. Check out this posting. http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=9883.msg62701#msg62701

Also if your laptop doesn't meat the minimum video display requirements you could continue to have problems.



Mike

[brew]

Oh, this is weird that there is a minimum resolution required. Have never run into this with other software... worked adequately until 1.8.04.

Yes, my laptop has a max 1366x768 resolution. I bought the laptop specifically to run PI, for a conference in Tucson. I have a nice dual monitor desktop which I used to use, but I get back problems sitting there. Have bought 3 expensive chairs, still hurts. My cheap laptop fits very well with my extremely comfortable recliner, so I now do most of my work there. The laptop is slow, and I spend a lot of time moving windows, but it doesn't hurt. Haven't figured out a way to get a second monitor positioned with my recliner

Have tried various combinations of the UI Core settings with no success. I was hoping to find a way to click Full Screen and have it stay that way instead of flipping back to whatever its default mode is.

So, I guess I need to see which my wife has less of a problem with - another laptop, or another fancy chair. Prob about the same price:(

[msmythers]

PixInsight is a very unique piece of software in that it's user interface is basically identical on the different operating systems with the many different video configurations users have.  With many users opting for the newer high dpi screens, 4k and higher monitors changes in resolution requirements were bound to happen. Just go back a couple of years in the PI forum and see the problems people were having with these high DPI monitors on versions before 1.8.4. To meet those fast growing needs PI started using QT5 in PI too accomplish the requirements of UHD and high DPI monitors. This happened with 1.8.4. We were warned ahead of time that this was happening and that low res screens were going to have problems. With this new change it meant that low resolution monitors were no longer officially supported.

This sort of thing happens with software as hardware changes. Unfortunately laptops like other portable computing devices become old even while companies are still selling them. When purchasing hardware, obsolescence is the risk we take. The same sort of thing happened when PI moved from version 1.7 to version 1.8, we lost the 32 bit version of PI. While on the surface that doesn't seem like a problem for most since modern OS's and computers have been 64 bit for well over 10 years. There were however many who suddenly could no longer use the latest version of PI at all, it would not install. Mostly this was the portable devices. They had to either purchase new computers or use the old PI. I myself have an older laptop, purchased new in 2009 that is running Windows 10 with version 1.7 of PI on it because it only has a 32 bit processor. I don't use it most of the time but from time to time I do. I understand the limitations. So changes happen.


Mike


   

[cbradshaw]

You might try changing the global preferences screen settings at startup. Check out this posting. http://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?topic=9883.msg62701#msg62701

Also if your laptop doesn't meat the minimum video display requirements you could continue to have problems.



Mike

This happened to me tonight and I found this thread, but none of the solutions worked.  It was fine last night so I did not think there was anything wrong with my computer.  Finally, I hit view -> Default Control Bar and everything resized correctly again. 

Regards,

Charlie

[mricard]

Hello,

I'm having the same problem running a Dell XPS15 at a screen resolution of 3840 x 2160 running Windows 10. The bottom of the Pixinsight window is missing. I can resize it by clicking on the maximize button but as others have mentioned, as soon as I open another file I'm faced with the same problem. If anyone can offer a suggestion It would be greatly appreciated.

clear skies,

Marc