QT apps are too wide and not sized properly

Ranny_Bergamotte · 3 July 2023 15:14

I've been curious about tiling window managers, and over the past month, have been trying to use hyprland as much as possible. Today, I tried to fixe a long-standing issue that I had, which was that qt apps were not respecting the sweetified or kvantum-dark theme, and so after some researching, installed qt5ct and followed the instructions on this Reddit Post. I added the lines

env = QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR,0
env = QT_SCALE_FACTOR,1
env = QT_QPA_PLATFORM,wayland;xcb
env = QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION,1
env = QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME,qt5ct
env = SDL_VIDEODRIVER,wayland
env = CLUTTER_BACKEND,wayland

to my hyprland.conf. These lines basically set the environment variables. Below here is my list of current environment variables active on hyprland.

SHLVL=2
PWD=/home/mab
GTK_IM_MODULE=fcitx
ALACRITTY_LOG=/tmp/Alacritty-229182.log
ALACRITTY_SOCKET=/run/user/1000/Alacritty-wayland-1-229182.sock
AMD_VULKAN_ICD=RADV
CSF_TObjDefaults=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/StdResource
BROWSER=vivaldi-stable
CLUTTER_BACKEND=wayland
CLUTTER_PAINT=disable-dynamic-max-render-time
CSF_DrawPluginDefaults=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/DrawResources
CSF_MDTVTexturesDirectory=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/Textures
CSF_PluginDefaults=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/StdResource
GTK_USE_PORTAL=0
CSF_ShadersDirectory=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/Shaders
CSF_XSMessage=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/XSMessage
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus
COLORTERM=truecolor
DEBUGINFOD_URLS=https://debuginfod.archlinux.org
DRAWDEFAULT=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/DrawResources/DrawDefault
CSF_EXCEPTION_PROMPT=1
CSF_OCCTResourcePath=/usr/share/opencascade/resources
DRAWHOME=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/DrawResources
EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim
QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland;xcb
ALACRITTY_WINDOW_ID=94658643970736
SDL_IM_MODULE=fcitx
USER=mab
PATH=/home/mab/.local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/share/mycroft-core/bin:/usr/share/mycroft-core:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl:/var/lib/snapd/snap/bin:/home/mab/Applications/Mycroft/mycroft-core/bin
SDL_VIDEODRIVER=wayland
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=
CSF_XmlOcafResource=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/XmlOcafResource
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Hyprland
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
GTK2_RC_FILES=/home/mab/.gtkrc-2.0
QT_IM_MODULE=fcitx
SHELL=/bin/fish
WINDOWID=94658643970736
QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000
MANPAGER=sh -c 'col -bx | bat -l man -p'
HG=/usr/bin/hg
XDG_SESSION_ID=15
MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
CSF_TObjMessage=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/TObj
MUTTER_DEBUG_ENABLE_ATOMIC_KMS=0
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8
CASROOT=/usr
STARSHIP_SESSION_KEY=1[censored just in case]
CSF_LANGUAGE=us
STARSHIP_SHELL=fish
CSF_MIGRATION_TYPES=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/StdResource/MigrationSheet.txt
INPUT_METHOD=fcitx
HYPRLAND_CMD=Hyprland
CSF_IGESDefaults=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/XSTEPResource
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION=1
HOME=/home/mab
HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE=[censored just in case]
FONTCONFIG_PATH=/etc/fonts
LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8
GDK_BACKEND=wayland
TERM=xterm-256color
CSF_StandardDefaults=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/StdResource
XDG_SEAT=seat0
WAYLAND_DISPLAY=wayland-1
LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.UTF-8
LC_NAME=en_US.UTF-8
MOTD_SHOWN=pam
_JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session13
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/home/mab/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share:/var/lib/flatpak/exports/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share:/var/lib/snapd/desktop
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=wayland
XDG_VTNR=1
LOGNAME=mab
MMGT_CLEAR=1
LC_ADDRESS=en_US.UTF-8
XDG_BACKEND=wayland
LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.UTF-8
XMODIFIERS=@im=fcitx
DISPLAY=:1
MAIL=thunderbird
CSF_SHMessage=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/SHMessage
QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1
XCURSOR_THEME=LyraG_Cursors
CSF_XCAFDefaults=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/StdResource
VISUAL=kate
PAM_KWALLET5_LOGIN=/run/user/1000/kwallet5.socket
CSF_STEPDefaults=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/XSTEPResource
XCURSOR_SIZE=24
DESKTOP_SESSION=hyprland
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0
CSF_StandardLiteDefaults=/usr/share/opencascade/resources/StdResource
LANG=en_US.UTF-8

After adding the lines to hyprland.conf from earlier though, and logging out and back in to see the changes, all qt apps became too wide. A screenshot is attached below (I know it's not using hyprland and using Plasma instead, but couldn't get screenshots to work yet on hyprland, but the issue also persists on Plasma).

I have no idea why all the apps have a wider than normal aspect ratio. I tried removing the environment variables from hyprland.conf, and searching online, to no avail. If anyone knows anything about what could cause this issue, it would be well appreciated. This only affects qt apps it seems to me, other gtk based apps work just fine.

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BluishHumility · 3 July 2023 16:07

Ranny_Bergamotte:

after some researching, installed qt5ct and followed the instructions on this Reddit Post. I added the lines
env = QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR,0
env = QT_SCALE_FACTOR,1
env = QT_QPA_PLATFORM,wayland;xcb
env = QT_WAYLAND_DISABLE_WINDOWDECORATION,1
env = QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME,qt5ct
env = SDL_VIDEODRIVER,wayland
env = CLUTTER_BACKEND,wayland

Try removing these environment variables one by one until you find the one that has introduced the problem (my guess would be QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR,0, or QT_SCALE_FACTOR,1).

Once you have determined which is the problematic environment variable, find out what other values you can set and test them until you find one that doesn’t cause the scaling issue.

Ranny_Bergamotte · 4 July 2023 02:24

I tried removing all of them, but the issue still persists. Even switching back to plasma, I still have the same issue. It seems like putting in those flags made the change permanent.

system · 18 July 2023 02:25

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