Tim, I’m replying from a memory many moons ago, but I seem to recall a few discussions on this list (and bug reports) around the issue of minimum targeted width.
I think it used to be 800. I’m not sure if that was increased. (960 would easily sit side by side on a 1920 screen) It seems from your experience this might be the case. If so, as far as I know, this is hard coded. But, there might be some influence possible with CSS. (I’m not certain of this, you’ll have to play around with it.) For starters, if you can specify a smaller font, try that first. The text itself will take less space, and some UI padding might vary with font size. A ‘condensed’ version of a font is a good candidate here, because while the vertical height will be the same (and thus not harder to read) the horizontal width of the characters and the spacing between them (kerning) is reduced, thus getting more characters per ‘line’ than the standard version of that font. Since you’re trying to target width, that might be the better route to go than overall font size. (of course you can do both) After that, there might be parts of the UI you can buy some padding. (or even set it to zero for some elements) Certainly spacing between toolbar buttons can be reduced, and you can hide the labels if they make the reserved space too wide. Make sure your tabs are top or bottom placement rather than left or right. Adjusting the register itself is likely not possible but font selection might help you shrink columns manually. (note, this is *per register* so you’ll have to adjust columns for each and every account you want to use this way) Do a search on the wiki for the GTK page, or check the FAQ about customizations. (you’ll have to traverse a few pages deep to get to the good stuff, but it might not hurt to start with the FAQ and read your way to GTK to get a better grasp of the task if you aren’t already familiar with it.) Using the GTK inspector will help you find what parts of the UI to target for a custom CSS file. Of course, outside of playing with a few fonts, a custom CSS file is not one I’d consider a ’simple’ solution, but it also isn’t terribly difficult, just a bit time consuming to figure out and play with till you get what you want/like. Regards, Adrien > On Jan 17, 2020 w3d17, at 5:27 PM, Tim Kallmer <tkall...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Using 3.6 on Ubuntu 19.04. Is there some setting that sets the minimum > width the Gnucash window uses? I like to snap GC on one half of the screen > and have a browser with my bank website on the other half while I am > recording transactions. This works fine on my desktop with 1920x1080 > resolution. But on my laptop with with 1600x900, snapping doesn't work and > I can only shrink the width to what seems like 860 pixels, over one-half of > the screen, so it doesn't fit nicely, and I cannot see my full transactions > and GC simultaneously. And it takes a bit of mouse work to adjust the > window edges to tile them, then scroll the browser back and forth with the > bottom slide bar. Zooming the browser out to fit makes the text small and > difficult to read. I've been living with it, but thought I'd ask if there > is a simple solution. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
