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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0017592 | Scribus | User Interface | public | 2025-07-23 18:31 | 2025-07-24 17:45 |
Reporter | mrmpscribus | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | always |
Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
Platform | Linux | OS | Fedora | OS Version | 38 |
Summary | 0017592: text properties palette covers half the screen and cannot be resized | ||||
Description | Text properties palette opens to cover over half the screen and cannot be resized. | ||||
Steps To Reproduce | 1. Open Scribus 1.5.8 on Fedora 38. 2. Open file to edit text frame contents. 3. Open text properties window. | ||||
Additional Information | I have worked with the "~/config/scribus/prefs150.xml" file, resetting the "width" values of the three main palettes, and this sometimes can work to remove the issue until Scribus is closed and reopened. | ||||
Tags | #waiting, 1.5.8 | ||||
Patch | No | ||||
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I could not provide more detail without the form timing out and having to be re-typed. I hope the issue is clear enough. The non-resizeable window issue applies to the Text Properties Palette, and also the Search and Replace popup, which opens at over 100% screen width and cannot be resized (indeed, the edges cannot be clicked and dragged). The Text Properties Palette must be docked in order to see the content being worked on in the document. The non-resizeable issue can sometimes be fixed by repeatedly opening Scribus and closing it, but it is not reproducible consistently. |
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My guess is that you are running Scribus in a Wayland session. Qt5 toolkit does not well in Scribus session and consequently Scribus will not work well either when running under Wayland. Post 1.5.8 version a workaround has been put in place in order to enforce use of the Qt xcb platform. This workaround force Scribus to use X11 or XWayland when running under Wayland. |
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Thanks, that's a great suggestion. However, my session is "x11". |
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Can you try the official Appimage for Scribus 1.6.4? (You can get there from https://www.scribus.net/downloads/) 1.5.8 is a bit old... Warning: files that have been saved with 1.6.4 can (probably) not be opened with 1.5.8. |
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Thanks, but I don't see a RHEL/Fedora RPM package offered. It looks like there are some semi-generic Linux tarballs, but I don't have time to test and potentially have to keep up with out-of-band versions. Respectfully, I suggest RHEL/Fedora is a major and modern OS family which should be supported directly. Somehow, there seems to be a bit of code somewhere in the 1.5.8 Fedora 38 package (scribus-1.5.8-9.fc38.x86_64) which tells the Text Properties Palette and Search and Replace Window to open really wide and disable adjustment - maybe a fallback condition. None of the other palettes or windows ever have the same problem in Scribus 1.5.8 on my system, and none ever do in any other software I use, so it's not likely (though not impossible) to be an OS/session/QT problem (my system uses qt-4.8.7-73.fc38.x86_64). Now, I will be upgrading to a newer Fedora soon from 38, so perhaps that will resolve the issue when the Scribus RPM changes. It appears Fedora 39 uses scribus-1.5.8-15.fc39.x86_64.rpm and 40 uses scribus-1.6.1-3.fc40.x86_64.rpm. It would be helpful to know if the Scribus developers find or know of code block(s) which could possibly generate this issue - and if they have been addressed. Since RHEL/Fedora isn't supported directly, perhaps the process by which the package becomes available to a system via DNF could be interrogated. I'd hate to get to 1.6.1-3 and find the issue is still there, which might mean it's still there in the latest code. Ultimately, though, Scribus is amazing and powerful, and I used Quark Xpress long ago. Thanks for providing this software, which is otherwise bulletproof and produces wonderful project PDFs :) |
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If you follow the link above, you get to the downloads offered by Scribus (that's called getting the upstream packages : - ). One of the options for the download format is Appimage. If your system is new enough, you can simply set the downloaded Appimage file as executable (by using the terminal or the file manager) and start it (double click or from the terminal). It just runs. No installation is necessary and no file is added anywhere, except for the configuration and temporary files. In the current development Scribus the code for the palettes is completely new, so it's not really useful to dig into that old code, most of all if the issue is potentially fixed in the current stable version (which you could test by downloading the Appimage). |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2025-07-23 18:31 | mrmpscribus | New Issue | |
2025-07-23 18:31 | mrmpscribus | Tag Attached: 1.5.8 | |
2025-07-23 18:31 | mrmpscribus | File Added: Screenshot-20250723142125-2560x1048.png | |
2025-07-23 18:36 | mrmpscribus | Note Added: 0052918 | |
2025-07-23 19:00 | jghali | Note Added: 0052920 | |
2025-07-23 19:22 | mrmpscribus | Note Added: 0052921 | |
2025-07-23 19:56 | ale | Note Added: 0052922 | |
2025-07-23 19:57 | ale | Tag Attached: #waiting | |
2025-07-24 15:24 | mrmpscribus | Note Added: 0052927 | |
2025-07-24 17:45 | ale | Note Added: 0052928 |