I can not see the settings menu and I cannot resize the window anymore. My display is small. It is only 1366x768. So, It is hard to me to navigate certain areas of the launcher. Previously we could resize the window easily. 😞
Please give us back the option to resize the window again.Â
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On Linux, the current minimum size for the launcher is 1280x720.
There is absolutely no reason that it needs to be this large.
On most screens there is conspicuous vertical and horizontal empty space, suggesting this choice was made arbitrarily without reference to the internal layout. I'd be willing to bet that it would be usable (if cramped) even at 640x480, were that allowed.
My interest here is that I have an old 1024x768 monitor that I used to be able to put the launcher on, in maximised mode, but now it won't fit.
It even removes the "maximise window" icon from the launcher's title bar to prevent my trying to get it to fit that way, should I move most of the launcher over to that monitor. In my book, that's just plain rude.
If that wasn't enough, Minecraft itself works just fine on that monitor. Why does the launcher need more resolution than the game itself?
Noticed this gets much worse with the Windows scaling feature, so this might also be a problem of accessibility for people who are visually impaired and use high scaling options. On a 1920x1080 display it's uncannily large at 125% but still completely functional, at 150% some buttons aren't visible anymore, at 175% you can't even access the play button.
Still an issue in b3.5.17. The minimum is 1604x940 (Windows 10). In 2.1.17784, the minimum size is/was 1000x631. It was also much quicker to load had a better layout. Please stop making the launcher worse.
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> We recommend you set your system to scale not beyond 100%
System scaling, for me at least, is 1:1 and regardless of what it is set to, it is not the cause of this problem.
Indeed, since this cryptic comment might have been a reverse hint, I did try to run the launcher with alternative scaling, but the hard-coded minimum size in the launcher still takes effect and the window will not resize below 1280x720 actual, physical pixels on my monitor.
Flipping this on its head and turning scaling the other way, elements in the launcher window become larger, and yet the launcher works just fine, proving that the hard-coded limit is unnecessarily large.
We could, of course, change our entire OS scaling and then scale everything else but the launcher back the other way, but that's a horrible workaround.
There is a 1280 somewhere in the launcher code pertaining to resizing that should ideally be a 1024 if that minimum limit is to exist at all (and I'm not sure it needs to). That is the only change that is needed.
@unknown per my understanding, Launcher's minimum window size is 720p. The issue as written here is saying resolution of 1266 x 768 isn't fitting - and I'm assuming this means with the Launcher resolution at default & no up-scaling happening either at the OS level or within the Launcher settings.Â
Assuming all that is true, it should fit. Can you confirm what your OS level zoom settings & Launcher level display settings are set to?
My secondary monitor is, or rather was, 1024x768, and though I have had the good fortune to be able to upgrade, I may not be the only person with a monitor of that size. It remains my backup monitor if something is to go wrong with my current ones.
The other point I made back in March is that the game itself will run at a lower resolution than 720p. That the launcher won't also do this doesn't make sense.
I have the same problem, the launcher now takes up at least a third more screen than it used if not more. Not being able to resize it is really inconvenient. Â