Fresh install while keeping old home. KDE configuration issue? Icons and fonts super-sized

English Install/Boot/Login
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Hello,
I recently upgraded from LEAP 15.0 to 15.1 (both KDE) and I kept the old /home directory.

I have a funny development. Everything seemed okay more-or-less in the beginning and at some point I started booting where all of the window borders have been enlarged, as well as its icons. After reboot, they would be “normal” size again.

After a number of reboots, I seem to only boot with icons extremely enlarged not only for the window borders, or task manager, but for the entire desktop session.

I have a funny feeling that this must be some sort of issues with configuration, and I ran into similar problem years ago and I remember having to delete a configuration file to get everything to work. Could someone help me with this?

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As you talk about icons, windows and the like in KDE, this is only after a login.

So you report things being wrong/right sometimes (random) after a boot (and thus after at least first login after a boot), can you please inform us if repeated logout/login without shutdown/boot then reaeats the situation of the first login, or if they also show randomness.

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Does this exist for a newly created user? Mind, it could be related to using outdated theming.

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Hello hcvv,
Yes. From logout/login, icon/font size seem to vary.

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Well, problems that seem to occur at random are amongst the more diffucult to solve :(.

What about @Knurpht’s good suggestion?

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Ironically this does exist or the newly created user, but it seems to always load super-large fonts/icons.

I think the default theme settings somewhere got fudged?

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The font/icon size issue could be related to DPI settings. If your screen is FHD, add this to /etc/sddm.conf and reboot:


[X11]
EnableHiDPI=true

If that doesn’t do the job, in SYstemsettings - Fonts set DPI to 120, logout, login.
For your current account, it could also be useful to remove ~/.local/share/kscreen, whilst not logged in on the desktop.

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Forcing fonts DPI to 120 seems to hold for now. I also removed ~/.local/share/kscreen just in case. I will get back to you if this doesn’t seem to hold

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Okay,
now it seems that the desktop icons rearrange themselves, and I cannot change their position until I go to desktop settings and change folders to something else, and back to ~/Desktop.

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Longer Leftklick----Bar on the right side of the icon–resize or move or delete

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Have you locked the icons once you have them where you want?

Right click desktop and select icons and set lock state there

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Just as a closure, due to the fact that I was having issues with one of the packages, and a bit of messy broken links in /home directory, I fresh installed using including the /home partition.

The previous steps had to be repeated. Configuring /etc/sddm.conf, and foring fonts resolution to 120DPI.

To answer gogalthorp, I did lock them, and unfortunately it did not help but I noticed the following. After login, icons appear in the right spots, then the taskmanager appears oversizes, then shrinks to the right size. In response the icons move out of the way.

Current work-around is that I decided not to lose the bottom row of the Desktop layout, but I wish there was a solution to make sure that the taskmanager loads before the desktop icons to avoid this.

Thanks you all for your help.
-SJL