How to adjust the size of Darktable window?

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How to adjust the size of Darktable window?

Fotojoy

My PC : Desktop, Windows 10 home 64b. 20H2
Darktable : 3.2.1
Installed Darktable a few days ago. The window of the Darktable can be adjusted vertically, but not horizontally.
How to tackle with this issue, please?
Thanks.
Fotojoy

MrSteveVee

I too am running under windows 10. Resize should work pulling from the vertical or the horizontal and also from the corners to resize in all both directions, I do not appear to have any problems resizing so this sounds strange. Does F11 work to go into full screen mode?
Steve.

Fotojoy

Thank you, Steve.
On my PC, the Darktable window can be resized ONLY vertically.

" Does F11 work to go into full screen mode?"
Do you mean images shot with f11 aperture? It works just like other images shot with any f-stops.
I cannot use the Darktable. About 1/3 of the window is outside of the monitor screen.
Thanks.
Fotojoy

MrSteveVee

No I mean pressing the F11 function key. This toggles full screen on/off and might help
Steve.

Fotojoy

MrSteveVee
Thank you.
Yes. F11 toggles full screen on&off. But the screen cannot be turned off when it is toggled on, because the screen is extended beyond the screen borders. Have to press Alt+F4 for closing the window.
Fotojoy

MrSteveVee

Just read your post again, it might be a problem with your scale setting on windows. When looking at your desktop, right click on the screen and pick the "Display Setting" option
There is an adjustment called "Scale and Layout", Change this setting until you can see all of the dt screen
Now adjust dt screen so that it is a quite small square in the center of the screen
Now change the Scale and Layout back to the original setting
Hopefully dt screens are now inside of your monitor screen and you can adjust now to suite the new display layout
Steve.

Fotojoy

MrSteveVee
The lowest setting of Scale and Layout on my PC is 100%. It is 100% now. Cannot set below 100%.
Fotojoy

jaw-dt

Are you running a dual monitor setup and what is the aspect ratio or resolution of the monitor?

You might try if you haven't already.
Set your lighttable screen to file manager
Right click the upper most part of the frame

Click on unmaximize
Click on maximize

You may need to adjust the size of the side menus by dragging them smaller.

Fotojoy

jaw-dt
"... You might try if you haven't already.
Set your lighttable screen to file manager
Right click the upper most part of the frame

Click on unmaximize
Click on maximize... "

Have tried but nothing different.
Fotojoy

MrSteveVee

Did you try adjustingwindows "Scale and Layout" % settings?
Steve

jaw-dt

Not running windows but Steve's tip seems well worth a try.

I have read that the issue is monitor resolution, some seem to think the 3.2.1 is setup for 1920 x 1080. It worked fine on my 1366 X 768 but on my external 1280 X 1024 I had to fiddle with it. If the left menu is reduced in size by taking the inner edge of the menu and pushing outward until it is less than 1/2 its original with, then the right menu can be reduced in size by pushing it outward. At this point it should fit on the screen and can be size by dragging or bumping the program against the top of the desktop window (does this work in windows?). Then slowly resize menus with out pushing off screen again. Can't remember but may have had to adjust menu size for lighttable and darkroom.

Another poster on this site resolved the issue by changing monitor priority on a dual monitor setup.

Fotojoy

jaw-dt
Thank you.
My monitor resolution is set at 1024 x 768. What else setting do you suggest, please?
Fotojoy.

Fotojoy

jaw-dt
Just tried other other monitor resolution settings. Still, darktable window extends out of the monitor setting.
Fotojoy

jaw-dt

Fotojoy

Last ideas
In darktable settings on the lighttable tab, set "high quality thumb processing from size" to VGA.

Then resize menus by:
"the left menu is reduced in size by taking the inner edge of the menu and pushing outward until it is less than 1/2 its original with, then the right menu can be reduced in size by pushing it outward. At this point it should fit on the screen"

Try shrinking the menus after unmaximizing?

Good luck!

Fotojoy

jaw-dt
Thank you.
I cannot try anything on Darktable anymore.

1. Changed my monitor resoution from 1024x768 to 1366x768, monitor screen became a small square, about 2/3 of the screen, in the center of the screen.
2. Words and icons in Darktable became too small and some even unclear for me to read.
3. My desktop window remains in this small square, cannot recover the full screen. Monitor resolution is resent back to 1024x768, but the window of my desktop remain in that small square
unchanged.

DO YOU KNOW HOW TO RECOVER THE FULL SCREEN ON THE DESKTOP, PLEASE`?

Thank you.
Fotojoy

Fotojoy

jaw-dt
Thank you.
Now, set the display resolution at 1280x768, the display of this old monitor is or seems to be normal, fills up the entire screen at least. I tried this setting several times before, but this time, but it breaks the small square and fill up the entire screen.
Everything of Darktable is displayed on the screen. But the letters and icons are so tiny that they are very hard for me to read. And everything is a bit distorted, thinner.
Have to use a larger monitor if I want to continue learning the good image editor Darktable.
Thank you. Really appreciate your kindness.
Fotojoy

MrSteveVee

Change your monitor back to its normal resolution
In Windows, right click on the desktop window and select display settings (second option from the bottom if you cannot read the text)
There are two options you are interested in. "Display Resolution" and "Scale and Layout"
Change the display resolution to match your Monitor.
Now adjust the scale and layout. This is the setting that most window apps including darktable use to scale their apps to match the window. One of the settings is marked default. Use that setting first and see how DT looks. If it is not correct, adjust this setting up or down until DT is at the desired resolution
Steve

Fotojoy

MrSteveVee
Thank you.
The monitor I am using now is a very old one, 2005, for Windows XP, 12x9 inches. Why use such a small monitor?
I am lazy. My original monitor for this desktop PC is a bit larger than this one, 19x11 inches. But its signal plug becomes a little bit unstable & needs to be serviced. Therefore, I use this old monitor temporarily.
Now, set the display resolution at 1280x768, the display of this old monitor is or seems to be normal, fills up the entire screen at least.
Everything of Darktable is displayed on the screen. But the letters and icons are so tiny that they are very hard for me to read. And everything is a bit distorted, thinner.
Have to use a larger monitor if I want to continue learning the good image editor Darktable.
Thank you. Really appreciate your kindness.
Fotojoy

Fotojoy

Have increased the size of font to 19 points. This helps. But the space for the image being edited becomes smaller.
For a larger image space, the left panel is pushed out. This help again.

jaw-dt

Fotojoy Glad you were able to get it functioning.

MrSteveVee

If you have resolutions settings on the monitor itself I would leave these at the monitors optimal setting and only use windows resolution and scale (we we have discussed) to get the best fit
Steve.

Fotojoy

MrSteveVee
Thank you.
The monitor's setting is 1024x768, the maximum. This was the setting before. Opened Darktable 3.2.1 on this monitor setting, the window of Darktable extended outside of the monitor screen. Then, the setting was altered to 1366x768, the display size of the monitor became smaller than the screen, about 2/3 of the screen size, a square at the center of the monitor screen. Tried many different settings and found the 1280x768 setting (1) filling up the entire screen, and (2) all panels of the Darktable displaying on the monitor screen after some adjustings (squeezing the panels inside of the screen boundary)
Thanks.
Fotojoy.