[Solved]Giant UI
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A Former User last edited by
Right after updating the video drivers (AMD crimson 17.4.4) Opera now has a giant user interface with giant icons and a truncated sidebar. Also, the search and copy buttons that show-up when you select a portion of text don't work anymore.
I use Opera in portable mode and it's the default browser. My windows text size is set to 150%, but I've checked "Disable Display Scaling on High DPI Settings" on the Opera .exe, but for some reason this option don't seem to work anymore.
Is there any option to scale the UI? (other than the non-working windows one)
System: Windows 10
Opera version: 45.0.2552.898 (PGO) -
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A Former User last edited by
try to update
Try with Opera 46, released today.
I don't have the option to update. However, I think I know why this happens: to make Opera Portable the default browser you have to trick windows: you have to rename the folder where Opera is, execute a non-portable installation of Opera in the path where Opera portable was, delete the "regular" installed Opera, and rename the Opera Portable folder back to its original name, this is what causes the issues.
In the past however, I was able to solve the problem but don't remember exactly how (well, almost solve: giant UI still happened when Opera was launched by a program, like the e-mail client, but if I directly launched Opera from its launcher before, everything worked all right, it was good enough of a solution for me).
Could a Windows registry setting solve this situation?
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A Former User last edited by
Have you tried the "--alt-high-dpi-setting=96" switch on the shortcut to launcher.exe (not opera.exe)?
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A Former User last edited by
Have you tried the "--alt-high-dpi-setting=96" switch on the shortcut to launcher.exe (not opera.exe)?
It worked! Thank you very much :wizard:
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A Former User last edited by
It worked! Thank you very much
There's only a little problem left: the "search" and "copy" buttons that show-up when you select some text still don't work, what could be the cause?
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A Former User last edited by
It's a bug already fixed in Opera 46.
OK, I'll update as soon as it will become available, I don't know why Opera hasn't updated yet, maybe it's region based?
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A Former User last edited by
It worked! Thank you very much
Good news!
The only snag with using the switch is that it will only work when Opera is run from that shortcut.
If you click on a link in an e-mail say, Opera will still run without the switch unless you edit the command in the registry. This may then be reversed when Opera updates, so you will have to keep doing it.
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A Former User last edited by
Good news!
The only snag with using the switch is that it will only work when Opera is run from that shortcut.
If you click on a link in an e-mail say, Opera will still run without the switch unless you edit the command in the registry. This may then be reversed when Opera updates, so you will have to keep doing it.No problem, I was already used to that. All it takes is just to manually open Opera before clicking on e-mail links, once you do it all works as intended (and besides, Opera will be always open anyway
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