I submitted a bug for this [1] back in 2018. The minimum window width increased in v3 for no obvious reason. There was some discussion of it here but nothing came of it at the time.
Colin [1] https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796911 On Sat, 18 Jan 2020 at 02:26, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@lusfiber.net> wrote: > > Tim, > > I’m replying from a memory many moons ago, but I seem to recall a few > discussions on this list (and bug reports) around the issue of minimum > targeted width. > > I think it used to be 800. I’m not sure if that was increased. (960 would > easily sit side by side on a 1920 screen) It seems from your experience this > might be the case. If so, as far as I know, this is hard coded. But, there > might be some influence possible with CSS. (I’m not certain of this, you’ll > have to play around with it.) > > For starters, if you can specify a smaller font, try that first. The text > itself will take less space, and some UI padding might vary with font size. > > A ‘condensed’ version of a font is a good candidate here, because while the > vertical height will be the same (and thus not harder to read) the horizontal > width of the characters and the spacing between them (kerning) is reduced, > thus getting more characters per ‘line’ than the standard version of that > font. Since you’re trying to target width, that might be the better route to > go than overall font size. (of course you can do both) > > After that, there might be parts of the UI you can buy some padding. (or even > set it to zero for some elements) Certainly spacing between toolbar buttons > can be reduced, and you can hide the labels if they make the reserved space > too wide. > > Make sure your tabs are top or bottom placement rather than left or right. > > Adjusting the register itself is likely not possible but font selection might > help you shrink columns manually. (note, this is *per register* so you’ll > have to adjust columns for each and every account you want to use this way) > > Do a search on the wiki for the GTK page, or check the FAQ about > customizations. (you’ll have to traverse a few pages deep to get to the good > stuff, but it might not hurt to start with the FAQ and read your way to GTK > to get a better grasp of the task if you aren’t already familiar with it.) > Using the GTK inspector will help you find what parts of the UI to target for > a custom CSS file. > > Of course, outside of playing with a few fonts, a custom CSS file is not one > I’d consider a ’simple’ solution, but it also isn’t terribly difficult, just > a bit time consuming to figure out and play with till you get what you > want/like. > > Regards, > Adrien > > > > On Jan 17, 2020 w3d17, at 5:27 PM, Tim Kallmer <tkall...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Using 3.6 on Ubuntu 19.04. Is there some setting that sets the minimum > > width the Gnucash window uses? I like to snap GC on one half of the screen > > and have a browser with my bank website on the other half while I am > > recording transactions. This works fine on my desktop with 1920x1080 > > resolution. But on my laptop with with 1600x900, snapping doesn't work and > > I can only shrink the width to what seems like 860 pixels, over one-half of > > the screen, so it doesn't fit nicely, and I cannot see my full transactions > > and GC simultaneously. And it takes a bit of mouse work to adjust the > > window edges to tile them, then scroll the browser back and forth with the > > bottom slide bar. Zooming the browser out to fit makes the text small and > > difficult to read. I've been living with it, but thought I'd ask if there > > is a simple solution. > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-user mailing list > gnucash-user@gnucash.org > To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user > If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see > https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. > ----- > Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. > You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All. _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list gnucash-user@gnucash.org To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
