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kstars banner and skymap far too big on raspberry pi 4B

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Hi,

I recently got a raspberry pi 4B 2Gb and decided to install raspbian OS ans kstars on it.
I managed to install folowing the indilib.org steps:

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wget -O - www.astroberry.io/repo/key | sudo apt-key add -
sudo su -c "echo 'deb www.astroberry.io/repo/ buster main' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/astroberry.list"
sudo apt update
sudo apt install indi-full kstars-bleeding gsc
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it all went very well, but when lauching kstars on the 1920x1080 screen, at first the banner is very big and pixelized, and then it shows the sky also for much too big and pixelised.
Moover, it connot be reduced using zooming options.

Kstars returns on the command line is clean.

Do you have an idea of what the problem is?
Thanks a lot for helping.


3 years 3 months ago #64733
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Could you take a look at Preferences-->Appearance Settings-->Defaults tab? I think there should be some settings for the display.
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Thanks for your reply. However, I already tried all possible menu I think.
I don't see any "preference" menu. Could you be more specific.
When I lauch Ekos it's so big that it is very difficult to manage.
I precise I use the 3.5.0 version and the first menu I have "view" or "configuration" but no "preferences" nor "Appearance settings"...

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Ok I misunerstood your point, you ment the desktop menu. This permit to lower the icon size which has an effect to kstars but make all desktop very very small.
I finally managed to get it right: in my /boot/config.txt I changed
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hdmi_group=2 % DMT mode
hdmi_mode=82 % mode 1920x1080
hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080 % ignore edid informations (if not set the screen goes to 1024x768)
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to

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hdmi_group=1 % CEA mode
hdmi_mode=16 % mode 1920x1080
#hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080 % ignore edid informations (if not set the screen goes to 1024x768)
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and all works fine without lowering the desktop icons.

This is all misterious to me but the problem is solved!
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