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[SOLVED] KDE Plasma and Cisco Packet Tracer 7 GUI issues

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[SOLVED] KDE Plasma and Cisco Packet Tracer 7 GUI issues

#1 Post by aza-industries »

Hi everyone, new to the forums.
I'm sorry to do this I normally try to solve problems myself but I've been stuck on this for a while.

So I managed to get Cisco Packet Tracer installed on a fresh debian system using KDE Plasma.

The problem I'm having is the UI doesn't seem right.
Everything seems extra large and the font colour/sizing is wrong.

I've tried finding a way of disabling theming and other stuff for individual apps to no avail, but I'm not even sure if that would fix the problem.
Something seems deeply broken.

Preview:
https://unsee.cc/c642929e/
Sorry I had to use some random temp host because attachments were causing an internal server error.

I've tried version 7.1 and 7.2.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for your time.

EDIT: I seem to have fixed my problem, not sure what it was because I reinstalled a bunch of KDE/Plasma packages.
But I also commented out 2 lines at the bottom of /etc/profile

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#QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO=auto
#export QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO
So if anyone runs across this problem try that out first because it's the easiest fix.
Last edited by aza-industries on 2018-08-21 06:39, edited 1 time in total.

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Re: KDE Plasma and Cisco Packet Tracer 7 GUI issues

#2 Post by Dai_trying »

I had a similar issue with VLC displaying with super large icons and could not fit it's window on my 1920x1080 display, the solution for me was to add the following line to /etc/environment I don't know if it would work for you too but it is part of a bigger problem with QT (as far as I understand it), and this fixed my VLC problem.

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QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=0

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Re: KDE Plasma and Cisco Packet Tracer 7 GUI issues

#3 Post by L_V »

Do you use plasma-workspace only or plasma-workspace-wayland ?

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dpkg -l plasma-workspace* |grep '^i'

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Re: KDE Plasma and Cisco Packet Tracer 7 GUI issues

#4 Post by aza-industries »

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ii  plasma-workspace      4:5.8.6-2.1+deb9u1 amd64        Plasma Workspace for KF5

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma and Cisco Packet Tracer 7 GUI issues

#5 Post by L_V »

Is your graphic card using the correct firmware ?

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lspci -k | grep -iA2 'vga\|3d'
dpkg -l firmware* | grep '^i'
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EDIT: I've seen you have solved your problem by reinstalling some plasma packages.
=> you should not have modified /etc/profile file.
Better use ~/.profile at user level (only if really necessary....)

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Re: [SOLVED] KDE Plasma and Cisco Packet Tracer 7 GUI issues

#6 Post by aza-industries »

I'm only on integrated, no discrete gpu.

EDIT: I have fixed my problem with random prodding, but I'm following your line of thought to learn more.

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aaron@plasma:~$ lspci -k | grep -iA2 'vga\|3d'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 5917 (rev 07)
        Subsystem: Lenovo Device 225c
        Kernel driver in use: i915
aaron@plasma:~$ dpkg -l firmware* | grep '^i'
ii  firmware-iwlwifi      20161130-3   all          Binary firmware for Intel Wireless cards
ii  firmware-linux-free   3.4          all          Binary firmware for various drivers in the Linux kernel

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