If you create a desktop icon for myrlyn by dragging from the application menu, using this produces a display whose fonts are too small for my ageing eyeballs. If instead, you run myrlyn from a console, or create your own desktop icon using the ‘create new’ menu, then the fonts follow your default settings. (I don’t know why)
See here:
opened 06:33PM - 16 Jul 25 UTC
closed 07:50AM - 17 Jul 25 UTC
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The dashboard is quite pretty, but illegible and completely useless on the VM I'… m using it with.
opened 09:56AM - 04 Jul 25 UTC
closed 01:49PM - 04 Jul 25 UTC
I'm trying out OpenSUSE Leap 16 Beta inside a VM. I have installed KDE Plasma 6 … as the DE, and themed it with the nord theme from the system's store, ~~which breaks the dark mode of `myrlyn-sudo`~~ (it seems I have mistaken when I used xdg-su/kdesu myrlyn for `myrlyn-sudo`. I don't think it uses dark mode in the first place). So, I tried to install Kvantum and use a theme of similar one as my KDE theme, but to no avail.
However, I found that `myrlyn-user` doesn't break this, likely because it is not running with root privilege so it is using user theme as seen in this image:
I have a few questions:
1. ~~Why did changing KDE theme breaks the dark mode in the first place? (I can't even get it back with changing it back to breeze-dark fyi, so something is really breaking this). I am asking this because elevated privileged-apps shouldn't rely on user-styling in the first place, so I'm confused.~~ I think this was me mistaking `myrlyn-sudo` and running myrlyn with xdg-su/kde-su at first.
2. I assume that making myrlyn-sudo use user theme would be a hack and a potentially causes some security complications, but is this a possibility?
3. If that is not a possibility, would there be a way in the future to use something like polkit or similar privilege elevation tools to, say, run it inside `myrlyn-user` and only elevated privileges when installing? That would potentially fix this issue as well.
Edited: I guess what was said with #90 ~~would work~~ (it wouldn't, see edit 2)
Edited 2: So I actually found that just running `kvantummanager` as root to install the theme and then running `kdesu myrlyn` would work. However, this and using qt6ct like the above thread suggests **doesn't seem to apply the theme to `myrlyn-sudo`**. I wish to disable interactive login for root on my system... which makes `myrlyn-sudo` the only way to use myrlyn for software managing, but the theming would not work in that case.
Cheers
And this integrates nicely with myrlyn-sudo (which is what the myrlyn-sudo.desktop file calls) because it preserves the needed environment variables.
Somewhat related:
opened 07:55PM - 24 Feb 25 UTC
closed 10:24PM - 24 Feb 25 UTC
# Qt 5: Everything Looks Fine
With Qt5, Myrlyn was looking good; no soft edges,… artwork pixmaps were looking fine: The little Myrlyn in the top right corner and the one on the "Init Repos" page right next to the repos list. No widget lines went lost, everything looked fine.
## Qt 6: Scaled-to-Death Pixel Mush
On my 14" Lenovo ThinkPad T14 Gen5 laptop with a 1920 x 1200 pixels / 302 mm x 188 mm display, it now looks like this:
Insane HiDPI scaling has taken over. Pixmaps get scaled and become so soft that they are a pain to watch. Widgets are losing lines; in general, the visual appearance ls bad.
```console
sh@meteor:~> xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1200, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1200+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
302mm x 188mm
...
...
```
HTH
There were some misconceptions in my previous post. The default menu entry runs the program myrlyn-sudo. This uses a small font which is neither the user’s current font, nor root’s.
My previous suggestion was simply to run myrlyn. This gives a display in the user’s current font, but unfortunately it won’t let you install anything, since you are not running as root.
The best solution I have found is to run (on kde) kdesu myrlyn.
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