Opening theme selector makes the window huge

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Hi, I’m not sure how to fix this, so hopefully someone will be able to help!

I’m in the process of moving to a new laptop and on my old one I had a custom colour theme set. I’m trying to replicate this, but every time I go to Settings > Themes, the window opens at a crazy resolution whereby it’s not fitting on the screen in its entirety. Any attempts to resize this window result in it sliding down or across the screen until it vanishes, rendering Ghostwriter unusable. It’s like the window is still open, so I can’t even close Ghostwriter via the X.

Any idea what could be causing this issue and how I could resolve it, please?

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This isn’t my experience… but my first port of call would be the config folder for ghostwriter.

~/.config/ghostwriter/

Rename that to ~/.config/ghostwriter-dead, restart ghostwriter.

If the problem persists, then IDK what’s next… try a new USER or something.

If the problem is clear, then copy back the ghostwriter.conf and see if that brings the problem back.

Next up, look at the themes folder and see if that’s causing issues - if not, then copy that folder to your new machine.

If you’re interested, try a new one - copy mine.

{
    "dark": {
        "accent": "#2691af",
        "background": "#2d2d2d",
        "block": "#3fc8a6",
        "cursor": "#b31771",
        "emphasis": "#aeaf59",
        "error": "#c23131",
        "foreground": "#c3c3c3",
        "heading": "#a89984",
        "link": "#597daf",
        "markup": "#2d7b91",
        "selection": "#12333c"
    },
    "light": {
        "accent": "#2691af",
        "background": "#c8c8c8",
        "block": "#3fc8a6",
        "cursor": "#c23184",
        "emphasis": "#5a412c",
        "error": "#c23131",
        "foreground": "#1f2628",
        "heading": "#ebdbb2",
        "link": "#597daf",
        "markup": "#ffffff",
        "selection": "#92c88e"
    }
}
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Forgive me, I have an extremely basic understanding of this sort of stuff. Where would I find the config folder? I’ve had a look in the program folder but can’t see it anywhere.

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Fixed it! It was a scaling issue. Just changed the DPI settings in properties so that the system performed the high scaling override.

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Linux ‘config’ folder is ~/.config

Though not ALL configuration files are in there…

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Generally, after doing a fresh OS install, these settings should be available if you backed up your home folder to another location (incremental backups via Back-In-Time for example).