Motive small icons (resolution?)

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dene
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Motive small icons (resolution?)

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Hello

I would like to work with motive on a laptop running on windows 10 with 4K display resolution (3840 × 2160) which seems to highly influence the appearance of motive (very small icons etc.). I already tried to change the screen resolution to a lower setting but no changes in motive.

Is there any option the control the appreance setting in motive itself?
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Re: Motive small icons (resolution?)

Post by steven.andrews »

Hello dene,

Thank you for reaching out to the community regarding your question. The icon sizes are a current limitation of the UI implementation. Unfortunately changing the resolution in Windows does not seem to affect this much.

There are no Motive settings that will affect the icon sizes. I have tried changing UI scaling/size within Windows itself, but I have seen this cause unusual displays within Motive and other applications. It worked for me, but some menu items or descriptions would end up off screen where I could not access them.

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Steven
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Re: Motive small icons (resolution?)

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So is this issue going to be adressed for a next update?
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Re: Motive small icons (resolution?)

Post by steven.andrews »

Hi dene,

We are slowly moving toward a UI implementation that should fix this. Unfortunately, Motive 2.0 will not resolve the issue with the icon sizes, but we hope to have this fixed after the next couple of releases.

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Re: Motive small icons (resolution?)

Post by Chris.Johnson »

Hi Dene,

There is a fix for the small Icons in Motive. You have to follow these steps:

If scaling is too small using a 4k display, you have to change the properties of the Program. To do this:
1. Right click on the Motive Icon (on the desktop) > Select Properties
2. Navigate to the Compatibility tab
3. Check "Override high DPI scaling Behavior. Scaling performed by:"
4. Select “System”
5. Close Motive if you have not already, and re-launch it.

This should resolve your small Icons issue in Motive. Please let us know if this works for you.

All the Best,
Chris Johnson
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Re: Motive small icons (resolution?)

Post by sceu »

Hi,

Thank you for the advice how the the small icons in Motive could be fixed.
Unfortunately it isn't working for us. I can only check the option "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" and with this option active, the icons stay small. I don't see the "Override high DPI scaling behavior by..."

Sincerely,
sceu
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