Long story short but I've found a workaround.
adrianinsaval wrote: ↑Tue Aug 02, 2022 4:04 am
dpi issue? I've seen this type of situation reported before on xfce and mate systems and IIRC setting the dpi correctly solved the problem, I think there was a case where it was related to a graphics driver issue too so it's hard to diagnose.
You were right. The workaround was indeed DPI related. Setting QT_FONT_DPI to 96 or QT_SCALE_FACTOR to 1 makes FreeCAD show up as expected.
I'm still hoping to be able to narrow down the possible causes and hopefully find the root issue so I won't be marking the post as solved for now.
tonyaimer wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 4:53 pm
For what it's worth
My Linux Mint seems to be working OK
My details
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OS: Linux Mint 20 (X-Cinnamon/cinnamon)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.29997 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: b52967d52ac46eff7c59e74d991f3f5b298944ef
Python 3.10.5, Qt 5.15.4, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.6.2
Locale: English/South Africa (en_ZA)
Installed mods:
* Help 1.0.3
Cant tell you what kind of graphics card I have or any other hardware details because I don't know.
Tony
@tonyaimer
Thank you! Can you please check your environment variables (by executing `env` in terminal) and see if you have any QT related ones set and to what values? Perhaps QT_FONT_DPI or QT_SCALE_FACTOR or basically anything that starts with QT?
P.S. Cool! It seems we have tagging/mentions now!