User Interface refuses to remember layout (v3.6?)
Hey peeps. I don't know the words to even describe the problem, so I can't search, so I don't now if this has been addressed before :)
For the past couple of months - I'm guessing ever since updating to MuseScore 3.6 - the UI just refuses to remember how it's supposed to look. This was never a problem before. As you can see in the attached screenshot, the palettes shrink down to entirely unusable, the inspector is almost unusable and the mixer again entirely unusable.
(Oh, and to be clear, I dragged the program window down as small as I could for the screenshot, to make it better for sharing. Normal usage is 4K full-screen.)
Every time I open the program, I fix these things so I can use the program, but they revert to this nonsense whenever I turn the program off again.
Is there no way to somehow save the UI layout so that the program remembers what's good?
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Comments
"Normal usage is 4K full-screen"
This suggest to me that you are using a large format monitor or TV. Try changing DPI or resolution settings. Are you using a laptop or desktop? Primary or secondary monitor?
In reply to "Normal usage is 4K full… by bobjp
Yes, it's a 4K 28" monitor. It's the primary of three monitors for my desktop.
I work in 4k all day, so changing the resolution just for MuseScore is not an option. How would that help me?
In reply to Yes, it's a 4K 28" monitor… by ArniVidar
Use the -D dpi option or MuseScore
In reply to Use the -D dpi option or… by Jojo-Schmitz
I have no idea what that means. And what would that do?
What's DPI got to do with saving the settings of the UI?
In reply to I have no idea what that… by ArniVidar
See https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/command-line-options
And https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/revert-factory-settings#instruction… but replace -F with -D [your dpi setting]
In reply to See https://musescore.org/en… by Jojo-Schmitz
Thanks. That's easy enough, but what does the DPI setting have to do with the UI not remembering the layout? And I don't have the slightest idea how DPI relates to monitors? That's printer territory. Monitors are measured in resolution, not DPI.
In reply to Thanks. That's easy enough,… by ArniVidar
Call it PPI then, same thing really. 28" at 3840 × 2160 pixels (typical 4k resolution) would be Sqrt(3840² * 2160²)/28 == 296DPI
In reply to Yes, it's a 4K 28" monitor… by ArniVidar
Maybe it is somethign entirely diffent: the (lack of) permission to write to MuseScore3.ini?
In reply to Maybe it is somethign… by Jojo-Schmitz
Nothing's changed on my end. Did MuseScore 3.6 change some permission settings?
In reply to Nothing's changed on my end… by ArniVidar
No. But we had such issue with Linux AppImages installed by root and run by a mere mortal user, who then was lacking the permission to change the ini file
Okay, much weirdness. I docked MuseScore fullscreen to a different monitor, then moved it back to the main monitor, and now it's saved the layout! WTF..
Well, at least it's fixed!
In reply to Okay, much weirdness. I… by ArniVidar
In the old days, Windows had a setting for text size measured in DPI. Now it asks you to pick a %. The recommended percent is different for different monitors. My Surface is 125%, while my regular laptop is 100%.
Unless your 3 monitors are all the same make and size, the text percentage and resolution will be different for each one. I wouldn't pretend to know why what you did worked. But I'm not surprised that it did. Possibly something in the way your monitors are connected together to our computer.
Glad you got it working.