Messed up CSS between Portrait and Landscape monitors

Damian

Nope, that never worked either😣

I cannot fathom out what is going on, even when I first loaded up the default MM it all looked too big. Thats why I then added in my config.js and CSS stuff from my Pi foders to see if they would help minimise things any.

ninjabreadman

@Damian Inspect the element, and share a screenshot of the div.module.compliments element styles. At this point, either (1) your CSS is not being applied, or (2) those aren’t the right classes to use to target that element. I suspect the latter.

Damian

@ninjabreadman

Thanks, but do I download something onto the Pc to view? How do i inspect the element? There is nothing on that page to download, so how does the Dom inspector work?

ninjabreadman

@Damian You don’t need to download anything. Use your mouse on the MagicMirror. Right-click the compliments module, and select “Inspect element”. Or, stop MM, then run npm start dev which will start in development mode with Chromium’s developer tools already open. You then just need to navigate the DOM to find the .compliments element. Follow these instructions to take a screenshot on an RPi.

Damian

@ninjabreadman

😂… by pure fluke I just found the very setting I was looking for, and never even knew it was there, or even noticed it until now when instead of my usual > alt > File > Exit… or >Window > Minimise, my mouse flicked on View, and there right in front of me was Zoom In - Zoom Out!

Only trouble is if I restart/reload MM it reverts back, and I have to zoom out again x 6 so it looks good… anyone know how to set it so it stays at my set zoom?

Thanks to all who assisted here to try and solve this… I will now sneak off in embarrasment😶

ninjabreadman

@Damian I was hoping you wouldn’t have to resort to it, but you can use CSS transform: scale():

body {
transform: scale(0.8); /* for 80% */
}

Some CSS transforms are processor intensive, although without animation should be fine on an RPi.

Damian

@ninjabreadman

Thanks, but this is on a PC not a Pi … I have posted another post incase it gets lost in here, to find out if there is a setting to make to keep my MM Zommed out x 6, but I will try your suggestion here and see if that helps, as being a PC it should handle it eh?

Mykle1

@Damian

While MM is running, press these keys at the same time:

Default Display Size = Control and 0 (That’s a zero)

Zoom In = Control and Shift and = (That’s an equals sign)

Zoom Out = Control and - (That’s a dash/minus sign)

ninjabreadman

@Damian Do you want 6x or 60%? (The former seems very small). Sorry I misunderstood about your PC; most of us use PCs as dev machines for the RPi.

If 6x (or, inverted, 1/6 or 16.7%):

body {
transform: scale(0.167); /* this might get messy, at least with any raster assets (like images) */
}

Or 60%:

body {
transform: scale(0.6);
}

According to this very interesting StackExchange question, you can also set the document’s zoom property in JavaScript (and via CSS, too):

document.body.style.zoom = 2;

Damian

@ninjabreadman

Sorry, what I meant by x 6 was pressing the Zoom Out six times to get everything fitting the way I like it on screen. I’m home in a few hours so will play about with your suggestions and see how they fare.

Damian

@Mykle1

Thanks for that Mykle, will save numerous clicks to get top menu then Zoom Out.

Glad I have at least found a workable solution, and had another read of your Read Me on your MMM.Lucy to get familiar when setting up everything. I managed to get exactly the same Mic as yours, and also seen the PS3 Eye one going cheap, so thought “Why not?” I’m sure I will go for the weaker version of MMM.Lucy for my Pi MM, so will use the PS3 Eye for that 😉

Mykle1

@Damian said in Messed up CSS between Portrait and Landscape monitors:

I’m sure I will go for the weaker version of MMM.Lucy for my Pi MM

Suggestion: Don’t even try to use the animated.gif of the face on your Pi. That will surely bring it to a screeching halt. Use a simple picture file, or none.

Damian

@ninjabreadman
@Mykle1

Ok, just completed tests on both suggestions.

@ninjabreadman, the results are that all that did was retain the original squashed look, but shrunk the page inwards, leaving a black border all round. Exactly the same, but a much smaller version, like having a 22" screen on a 55" tv.

@Mykle1, your keyboard shortcuts worked a treat, but when reloading, everything reverted again 😣

What I’m gonna do is wipe MM, seeing as I may have messed up something along the ways by trying all sorts, then download MM and put my chosen modules on, virgin style, then update everything, then see if any of your suggestions work better on a fresh MM, and add back in my personal changes 1 x 1.

If the zooming is still a problem, then I could live with just using the keyboard shortcuts on it, as it will be only once per day. This is only a temp measure using the kitchen TV mini itx PC, as I will be just finalising on a monitor set at portrait, for my PC operated MM, and using the full MMM.Lucy on that.

Many thanks again guys for all your input here, it may not have solved it, but your help has educated me more on MM, so for that alone, the journey has not been wasted.

Mykle1

@Damian said in Messed up CSS between Portrait and Landscape monitors:

your keyboard shortcuts worked a treat, but when reloading, everything reverted again

Then I suspect that you’ve changed something along the way that is overriding that. Your idea of a fresh install is not a bad idea, seeing as you don’t even remember the changes that you’ve made.

Another suggestion: Don’t trash your current installation. Simply rename the MagicMirror folder to something else. Do your new installation. Transfer your modules (1 by 1) into the new MagicMirror folder