"your screen resolution is too small to run roon"

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"your screen resolution is too small to run roon"

AtomicStick opened this issue 4 years ago · 9 comments

Worked previously, but with the latest update to Roon 1.8 whenever I try to launch via start_my_roon_instance.sh I get the message that "Your screen resolution is too small to run Roon. Please try to run maximized or fullscreen." Maximized and fullscreen are links, and clicking them does in fact make the window maximized or fullscreen, but the message stays and no Roon. The screen is of course the same as it ever was, and is plenty big enough to run Roon. I have deleted the my_roon_instance directory and reinstalled the whole project from github, but to no avail.

Answer 1 · 2021-02-22T03:56:51.000Z

Rebooting sometimes fixes this issue, but most times the error persists after a reboot.

Answer 2 · 2021-03-19T20:12:21.000Z

@AtomicStick were you able to resolve this issue? I'm running into the same thing. (Although reboot doesn't help)

Answer 3 · 2021-03-19T20:21:35.000Z

Yes and no. If I launch from Gnome and not the CLI it works fine. I think that's why I thought rebooting helped, but really it was just different ways of launching the wine instance. If I try to start it with start_my_roon_instance.sh I still get the error message. Didn't dig deeper to figure out why, as I just have it pinned to my favorites in the dock anyway.

Answer 4 · 2021-03-19T22:18:09.000Z

Thanks. It does launch from the icon for me as well. Weird.
Unfortunately the UI looks pretty bad. The colors are off and the text is too small/jagged. It's frustrating that Roon doesn't seem to care about Linux desktop users...

Answer 5 · 2021-04-23T14:09:08.000Z

I found that if I change if [ 1 -eq 1 ] to if [ 1 -eq 0 ] , I can get it to run.

I guess the same happens in the Windows version on Windows: https://help.roonlabs.com/portal/en/kb/articles/screen-resolution-is-too-small

So, if this doesn't work, just play with the scalefactor until it looks right.

$ cat ./start_my_roon_instance.sh
#!/bin/bash

SET_SCALEFACTOR=1

PREFIX=/home/steve/my_roon_instance
if [ 1 -eq 0 ] <---------------------------------------------- This is [ 1 -eq 1 ] out of the box
then
env WINEPREFIX=/home/steve/my_roon_instance wine /home/steve/my_roon_instance/'drive_c/users/steve/Local Settings/Application Data/Roon/Application/Roon.exe' -scalefactor=2
else
env WINEPREFIX=/home/steve/my_roon_instance wine /home/steve/my_roon_instance/'drive_c/users/steve/Local Settings/Application Data/Roon/Application/Roon.exe'
fi

Answer 6 · 2021-05-25T02:05:20.000Z

I found that if I change if [ 1 -eq 1 ] to if [ 1 -eq 0 ] , I can get it to run.

Thanks that worked

Answer 7 · 2022-02-01T04:19:50.000Z

That worked for me as well. Here's a one liner to patch it.

sed -i -e 's/-scalefactor=2/-scalefactor=1/g' $HOME/start_my_roon_instance.sh

Answer 8 · 2022-05-10T14:38:40.000Z

I think something goes wrong in the script install.sh when creating the startup script start_my_roon_instance.sh.

In line 115 of install.sh:
if [ $SET_SCALEFACTOR -eq 1 ] gets replaced by if [ 1 -eq 1 ] in the resulting script file. Perhaps because SET_SCALEFACTOR is also used as a variable in the install script and is therefore replaced in this text line?

Answer 9 · 2022-09-21T11:07:42.000Z

That worked for me as well. Here's a one liner to patch it.
sed -i -e 's/-scalefactor=2/-scalefactor=1/g' $HOME/start_my_roon_instance.sh

Working perfect! Thx.