SDL Trados windows spill off the screen

Hi,
With my wide screen (resolution 1920x1080), some SDL Trados Studio 2019 windows spill off the bottom boundary of the display (see the attachment) so that I cannot reach the OK button with my mouse. I have to just blindly press Enter assuming that the OK button is active/selected at the moment. For some windows I can manually adjust their height by dragging the upper boundary, but doing this for each next window seems awkward to me. Is there anything I can do to adjust the layout for my wide screen to see the entire window by default? Thank you.

Screenshot of SDL Trados Studio 2019 with a window extending beyond the screen's bottom edge, making the OK button inaccessible.



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  • I do not know - I never use this setting. My screens at home are 27" with 2560×1440 points and on the road I use a MS Surface 12" with 2736×1824 - and in any case Windows is set to 100%. When I do trainings, I rescale sometimes to 150% or 175%, but never have encountered what you show.
    So try to use View -> Reset window layout. I have too look later, where further view settings for Studio are stored, but have to take care about different things now.

    BTW, Windows looks perfect with 100% and not good with 150%, it is all too huge then...

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  • I used 'Reset window layout' million times. I've just got used to this issue since 2019 was released 2 years ago, but recently just recalled that I can ask about it here. Weirdly, this idea did not come to my mind before. I mean the issue is as old as Studio 2019 for me, even though I ask as late as today. 
    My 3 monitors are big enough (24") too, but icons and captions and menus etc are extremely small. I know that I can choose from small icons, medium icons, and big icons, but it only applies to the desktop icons. Even the desktop icon captions remain small.
    I think Windows 10 somehow causes this. I can't remember that I experienced the same with Win7.

  • This "issue" is very strange, as I have seen Studio on so many PCs and never ever seen something nearly similar. Does the window not maintain its size after being resized?
    Usually this window is far too small for my needs, never that big as you show.

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  • Exactly! And even if I adjust it manually, it only shrinks to a certain size, which is still too big. And no, it does not keep its size after shrinking.

  • OK, please go to File -> Setup -> User profiles, backup your current user profile (export). Then load a profile from the Studio installation folder (c:\program files...) and check again.

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  • BTW, Windows looks perfect with 100% and not good with 150%, it is all too huge then...

    Two screenshots comparing display scaling on Windows with Trados Studio. Top image shows oversized interface at 150% scaling, bottom image shows smaller, more readable interface at 100% scaling.
    Compare this. With my normal vision (I don't wear glasses or lens), I can hardly read time and date in the right bottom corner. No, 100% scaling is not acceptable for me.

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  • Well, I wear glasses and prefer 100%, certainly. A screenshot does not represent exactly what you see, but even with the very high resolution of MS Surface 100% is better. You can simply bring more necessary information on the screen in these parts of programs, which are really important. In Studio for example, this is the editor, terminology recognition, translation results, error messages and termbase viewer. With a bigger scaling I would not be able to place all this on a single screen, but when using 100% I have this and can still work comfortable, as the text shown in Studio is big enough. Menus, however, are fully unimportant - I don't need to read their descriptions, as what I use is well placed with big symbols or can be accessed with shortcuts.

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  • Then you should have bought a device with sensible display size, appropriate for the display resolution, in the first place.

    This all is a consequence of the stupid trend of extremely high resolutions (4K) on stupidly small displays (starting with 13"!!!)

    1920 x 1080 resolution is sensible on 24" display.
    2560 x 1440 resolution is sensible on 32' display.
    3840 x 2160 resolution is sensible on 48" display (acceptable on 43" display).

    Period.

    Anything else is total nonsense.
    Because the only sensible reason for higher resolution is to get more information on the screen...
    And turning on scaling - because one can barely see anything on small displays with high resolutions - defeats this purpose completely!

  • Even Polenka: how comes, that you know the absolute truth? How comes, that only these and no other screen resolutions are feasible? Will you forbid other (like myself) to chose whatever we like? Are you some kind of Adolf Hitler here to dictate us your own opinion?

    Sorry, but your post is highly irritating. Your own opinion may very well apply to your own business, but treating us like idiots just because we do not agree with your opinion is far beyond your competences. Even if I quite often agree with your opinion re professional attitude, your way to communicate is unacceptable here. Please stop treating other like idiots and keep your opinions for yourself.

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  • If you are part of the minority which is OK with high resolution on small displays, then everything is okay.
    You are not moaning, you do it on purpose and you are fine with what you get.

    My statement applies to the vast majority of people which are negatively affected by the trend, i.e. those which are basically forced to turn on scaling because they can't see properly the miniature fonts on 100% scaling... and then are moaning around.

    Personally, I used 1024 x 768 on a 14" CRT back in the 90's and everybody was saying it's not acceptable because it was too small for them.
    So what? I did it on purpose and I was happy with that. If I would be moaning about that, then I would be to blame because the normal resolution on that display size at that time was 800 x 600.

  • BTW, it's not my opinion, it's just a pure mathematics.

    1920 x 1080 on a 15" notebook was a standard for quite some time... and it was so-so to use, to be able to read the text.
    So, what's the logic behind putting like double resolution on even smaller screen?!

    There is only one "logic" - money...
    Convince people that these "retina" displays are something they really really really MUST have... and then make money on them.