Thank you Martin, Federico, and Graham for the replies.
Please, forgive the long delay in my response. I had some life events
delay me, and I took a long time for me to do some experiments.
By downgrading the Frescobaldi package to an earlier version, I can
sometimes temporarily get the ~50% squeezing of the x axis in
Frescobaldi's Music View to go away, and have the Music View return to
the proper aspect ratio when displaying pages. But, the solution never
sticks. (The whole white page is squeezed, not just the black music and
text.)
Martin, your comment about Wayland vs X11 got me studying and trying things.
The first thing I did was replace Manjaro linux with Arch linux on my
three computers, so that I could start from a clean slate and perhaps
get a better concept of what might be going on.
I only have problems with one computer, a Lenovo Legion 5 laptop with an
nvidia graphics card:
VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GA107BM [GeForce RTX 3050
Ti Mobile] (rev a1)
The other two computers have Intel graphics cards. So, perhaps the
nvidia gpu and drivers are the problem. The problem happens with either
the 'nvidia' or the 'nvidia-open' packages. I have settled on using the
'nvidia-open' package.
I am having the problem in both X11 and Wayland display servers. I have
settled on using hyprland and wayland for my window manager system. I
used to use xfce4 and X11. I am enjoying my switch to a tiling window
manager.
I have learned how to downgrade the frescobaldi package to earlier
versions - frescobaldi-4.0.0-1 was as far back as I could go without
dependency problems. If I downgrade the frescobaldi package I can
sometimes get the aspect ratio in the Music View to return to normal.
However, if I make any changes to 'Edit>Preferences>Music View' or
'Edit>Preferences>Fonts & Colors' (probably anything in
'Edit>Preferences', it will often revert to the ~50% squeezed x-axis in
the Music View. I am not sure if changes to Preferences is the only
thing that causes it to revert to the problem with Music View. It seems
to be very random.
I also did try several times to remove the
~/.config/frescobaldi/frescobaldi.config file with no effect.
Currently, the problem has returned and I have upgraded the frescobaldi
package to the current version that is in the Arch repository. I cannot
find a pattern for getting the normal Music View to stick.
I hope that was coherent, and perhaps one of the coding wizards can make
some use of it or offer some suggestions. For now, I will use the
wonderful Frescobaldi/lilypond combo on my other two computers that do
not have this problem.
Peace,
David
P.S. As I said in the first message, the engraved pdf files are fine.
There is no problem with their aspect ratios when viewed in a program
like Okular. It is just the Music View in Frescobaldi that has the problem.
On 5/27/25 4:53 AM, m.tarensk...@kpnmail.nl wrote:
Does Manjaro use Wayland? Does it have an option to use good old X11?
It does help me with window sizing problems I sometimes have with
Fedora. But hope it will be fully fixed one day.
groeten,
Martin
-------- Oorspronkelijk bericht --------
Onderwerp: Frescobaldi Music View aspect ratio problem.
Van: David Froseth
Aan: lilypond-user@gnu.org
Cc:
Hello lilypond users,
I know this is primarily a lilypond mailing list. However, I am
having a
problem with Frescobaldi's Music View window. I could not find any
webpages or forum/mailing list posts that mention this problem. I
hope
it is okay to ask a question about Frescobaldi.
After updating my Manjaro Linux system, the Music View in Frescobaldi
shrinks the page by perhaps 50% on the x axis. When I rotate the
page,
the music page is still shrunk on the x axis of the Music View
window.
All of the pdf files are correct when viewed in a pdf viewer like
Okular, so I think it is a problem with Frescobaldi's Music View
window.
Also, I upgraded 2 other Manjaro Linux computers to the latest
Frescobaldi and lilypond programs in the Manjaro repository, and the
Music View in Frescobaldi works fine. The problem is just on one
of my
computers.
I have Frescobaldi 4.0.2 and lilypond to 2.24.4 installed.
I have not been able to find any setting that I may have adjusted by
accident.
Does anybody have any advice on how to solve this?
Sincerely,
David
