It might not be clear, but that's a 55" monitor by the way. The font is way
too big in the places that you might think it's normal sized.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2018 at 11:36 PM Jack <ajackofsometra...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I've switched to KDE for my desktop, and now it's just not working at all.
> I'm attaching a screenshot of what is going on. Some UI elements are HUGE,
> and some are too small.
>
> I've fiddled with different versions of Freeplane, different versions of
> Java, different KDE settings, and different 'screen size' settings in the
> Freeplane appearance section to no avail. What can I do?
>
> It sounds like Swing apps pretend to be DPI aware, and it's both a)
> getting the wrong DPI information and b) applying that to only some
> elements.
>
> On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 2:54 AM Jack <ajackofsometra...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Felix,
>>
>> Sorry I have not gotten back to you. I've been traveling and thus away
>> from my external monitor at home. I can essentially set the 'look and feel'
>> correctly for my laptop monitor or my external monitor, but it requires
>> changing the settings every time I go from one to the other. I have to use
>> the 24" setting for my laptop and the 48" setting when I connect to my
>> monitor.
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2018 at 2:20 AM Felix Natter <fnat...@gmx.net> wrote:
>>
>>> hello JT,
>>>
>>> any update on this?
>>>
>>> Cheers and Best Regards,
>>> Felix
>>>
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>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1774749
>>>
>>> Title:
>>>   scaling is off
>>>
>>> Status in freeplane package in Ubuntu:
>>>   New
>>>
>>> Bug description:
>>>   When I use the default in the appearance setting [Display size], which
>>>   is 24" I believe, everything is way too big. Most importantly, the
>>>   text in the mindmap is too big. If I turn off menu scaling, the menu
>>>   isn't a problem.
>>>
>>>   If I set the display size to a significantly larger number, such as
>>>   50", the font is at the desirable size, but the readability is
>>>   horrible. Fonts are either too thin or too bold, and edges have a very
>>>   undesirable appearance (I would say they are more curvaceous, if that
>>>   helps).
>>>
>>>   I've played around with different scaling options on my computer to no
>>>   avail.
>>>
>>>   What used to happen is that the app just seemed to not scale at all.
>>>   It had a definite font size, and this worked great for my large
>>>   monitor.
>>>
>>>   My setup:
>>>
>>>   Ubuntu 18.04
>>>   Gnome Shell 3.28.1
>>>   55" monitor
>>>   Freeplane 1.6.13-1 (also tried on 1.6.15)
>>>   java-9-oracle
>>>
>>>   If anyone has any questions, I can be more than helpful.
>>>
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