Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
MKVtoolnix-GUI's interface gets completely mangled if the font is "too big"
I was all of a sudden experiencing what seemed to be a more troublesome problem, but then stumbled with an answer:
The forum moderators unfortunately weren't able to lock the thread before someone came up with a solution. Poor guys, they often have this eagerness to lock threads preventing them from being as useful as they could be despite being deemed too old by them, but you simply can't prevent every single stance of someone being helpful at a supposedly inappropriately old thread. Some forums have automatic locking of threads for N days without replies, while that would prevent threads from being awkwardly somewhat old and useful, it nevertheless removes the pleasure of locking the threads manually and then frustrating potential contributors, at a more direct level, by hand.
The weird thing is that mkvtoolnix to me at least seemed really to have a font just somewhat larger than the rest of the QT stuff, like 11 or almost 11, vs 9 to almost 10.
Must be some problem with dozens of conflicting/reduntant config files and environment variables, perhaps being grabbed differently by different things. Or something else.
Additional discoveries: it seems to be somewhat exotic in dealing with some configs. While one can inedde find settings for its own individual font configs, it does not accept floating-point sizes, and then 9.8 is understood as 98, which is unusable. Also, its configs are not set on ~/.config/<programname>rc as somewhat usual/standard for QT/KDE stuff I guess, but rather ~/.config/bunkus.org/mkvtoolnix-gui
There you can find a kdeglobals-like file and edit the font size manually. The GUI will come back still stretched out from the wrong sized fonts, but it's a matter of dragging and resizing multiple times.
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https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread....4#post14141454
Hey guy, I was looking for an answer and found this forum here, however we were both stuck on the issue.
I actually found a 2 way solution for the issue.
if your able to access APPEARANCE preference on UBUNTU, and in the selection of themes/backgrounds/fonts/ etc.
Change your fonts make sure all fonts are 10 or less, specifically the application font would be key for fixing this.
if once you do this, it looks decent enough to access the mKVtoolnix GUI (AT LEAST READ IT) click on it and once you see preference, then check the font there, if you still have issue, repeat step 1 and decrease the APP font to 8 and re-try. You should be able to access at least the settings and adjust to your liking.
Took me 6m of back and forth between the appearance of Ubuntu and the MKVtool gui to find the sweet spot. hope this helps and your still SUBBED
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I'm using MKVToolNix GUI v64.0.0 ('Too Much') 64-bit on Ubuntu MATE 22.04 amd64 desktop, and the GUI is broken. I mean, it's just not working right. I'll include a picture. I don't know if I have it use it as command line or what, but this is weird. I've tried reinstalling it, and it still is like this.
I actually found a 2 way solution for the issue.
if your able to access APPEARANCE preference on UBUNTU, and in the selection of themes/backgrounds/fonts/ etc.
Change your fonts make sure all fonts are 10 or less, specifically the application font would be key for fixing this.
if once you do this, it looks decent enough to access the mKVtoolnix GUI (AT LEAST READ IT) click on it and once you see preference, then check the font there, if you still have issue, repeat step 1 and decrease the APP font to 8 and re-try. You should be able to access at least the settings and adjust to your liking.
Took me 6m of back and forth between the appearance of Ubuntu and the MKVtool gui to find the sweet spot. hope this helps and your still SUBBED
The weird thing is that mkvtoolnix to me at least seemed really to have a font just somewhat larger than the rest of the QT stuff, like 11 or almost 11, vs 9 to almost 10.
Must be some problem with dozens of conflicting/reduntant config files and environment variables, perhaps being grabbed differently by different things. Or something else.
Additional discoveries: it seems to be somewhat exotic in dealing with some configs. While one can inedde find settings for its own individual font configs, it does not accept floating-point sizes, and then 9.8 is understood as 98, which is unusable. Also, its configs are not set on ~/.config/<programname>rc as somewhat usual/standard for QT/KDE stuff I guess, but rather ~/.config/bunkus.org/mkvtoolnix-gui
There you can find a kdeglobals-like file and edit the font size manually. The GUI will come back still stretched out from the wrong sized fonts, but it's a matter of dragging and resizing multiple times.
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