To this day it seems that the problem of the kdenlive NOT fitting in a 1366*768 16:9 laptop display is ongoing. I’ve looked at several forums and the answers have some degree of consistency. The one common thread seems to be that some elements in the View menu need to be deselected or unchecked. Yet, which ones must they be? I’ve done this several times by trial and error - at one point deselecting everything and starting over again. Only this time around, I toggled between the Logging and Editing modes of the upper right portion of the window, finally settling on Editing mode ( the project and clip monitors are indispensable of course ). Then opening the View menu again, I tried deselecting different things one at a time. It worked out for me that subtitles had to go. Once that was done, the window fitted in the screen and the bottom controls are now visible. Hopefully, this will help someone else with a similar dilemma.
Do you know you can create and save your own custom layouts to use the same way as the “Logging and Editing modes of the upper right portion of the window”?
They aren’t really ‘modes’, just some predefined layouts.
Working on a screen that small (especially in today’s environment of pushing through 4k toward 8k video) is always going be challenging, but if you know what you need for each part of your workflow you can design as many layouts as you need, with just what is needed at each step, and switch between them while editing at will.
I was hoping someone would post about this. For the past few weeks I have been having issues with the kdenlive not showing the very bottom of the normal window (it seemed to be ‘hidden’ behind the taskbar permanently). Clicking on the Square icon (maximize/minimize?) next to the X in the very top-right of the window would not do anything to resize the window. Just like I hadn’t pressed it.
Your tips above (unchecking items from the View menu) eventually (randomly?) helped me ‘fix’ the issue, with expected behaviour now being restored. Though it can revert back too…so it’s a bit of ‘fun’ times.
PS. For what it’s worth, I am using a 1920x1080 laptop screen, so this doesn’t seem to be related to resolution. I am using MX Linux & I have a “custom dpi setting” value of 127, if that matters. This was never an issue for me until maybe the past few weeks?
Oh! fwiw, I just realised the cause of my confusion here - a long time ago I disabled the menu bar, and only have the main and extra toolbar along the top … and I was able to add 6 layouts to the right of the extra toolbar …
That was one of the things I did early to optimise the space I had for the things I wanted most in it.
You can save even more space by adding the Load Layout command to the Extra Toolbar, and then you have all saved layouts only two clicks away
EDIT: Forgot to add that with View > Manage Layouts, you can change the sequence in the list of available layouts, so that your most used or most important ones are always at the top of the Load Layout drop-down
I like that idea because although I like the idea of being able to, really I rarely change layouts - my current custom one hasn’t been annoying me enough at any stage in my normal workflow to feel the itch for an entirely different layout. Mostly I just switch the sub-window functions as needed with tabs. And use the layout button to restore my saved geometry if I’ve been temporarily resizing sub-windows.
But I left them all at the top to remind me I could do that if the occasion ever called for it…
Looks like the only catch with putting Load Layout up there is that button gets no text, just a blank button with a dropdown arrow. The hover tooltip says “Load Layout”. There’s probably a qt dropdown attribute that can be set to fix that if you want another UI glitch to chase down
Whatever floats your boat - as the saying goes, right?
What works for you may not work for someone else, and vice versa. That’s why I am very happy that Kdenlive offers that flexibility so that every user can adjust the workspace, layout, and other configurable aspects of the application to best support their workflow, environment, personal style, and preferences.
Yeah, exactly. And I’m still tweaking things as more stuff becomes muscle memory and I start seeing what’s actually repetitive for me. It’s only quite recently that I’ve started filling the extra empty space in the toolbars with things I now know I do want just one click away. I very much appreciate that too.
Oh and my bad on the blank button (a bit!), turns out that it’s only blank until you select a layout with it - so it’s just the dropdown having a default of “nothing selected” instead of whatever the initially selected layout is.
