How to sort your screens on Windows

PaulRowell

I have responded to many requests for help on sorting out issues with screens/displays on Windows systems, especially with the growing number of displays that have high dpi resolutions. This post seeks to be a place where we can point people to if they are encountering such problems.

Problem 1 The OpenLP user interface looks like this:

To fix this go to the Advanced settings page and make the following change and then restart OpenLP:

AnnaMarie

PaulRowell When I change the HiDPI Mode, I can't restart the program. The information returns to default mode every time, so I'm not sure what's gojng on...

PaulRowell

Problem 2: My projector or TV Display Screen looks like this:

And my OpenLP display settings don't match the Windows settings:

In the above screen shot Screen 2 is what OpenLP calls the display, this is where OpenLP will show the songs etc. As you can see OpenLP reports the size of this screen as 1280 x 720 but Windows reports the size as 1920x1080:

The issue is that the Scale is set to 250%. To fix this issue set the Scale to 100% , now the display looks like this:

PaulRowell

Problem 3: My projector shows the OpenLP interface or when I start OpenLP all I get is a white screen with the OpenLP logo.

This probably should have been the first post as before OpenLP is started you must make sure that the monitors on your PC are set up correctly. To check this right-click on the desktop and choose "Display Settings":

Make sure that the setting highlighted is set to "Extend these displays"

Be aware that Windows may number the displays differently to how OpenLP identifies the displays.

PaulRowell

Problem 4: My display shows the song words in the top left corner or doesn't fill the screen:

This usually happens when your OpenLP theme doesn't match your display resolution. It can happen when, for example you replace a TV display with a 4K screen after using a FullHD screen etc.

So in the example above my display screen has a resolution of 3200x1800 but my OpenLP theme was set up for the screens at church where we use a FullHD setting (1920x1080). As I will be preparing slides for church I change my display at home to match the church . However if you have upgraded to higher resolution then changing the theme is the way forward.

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PaulRowell

When you say you can't restart the program, what prevents you from doing this? On my installation I just change the setting, close the settings screen and then exit OpenLP.

AnnaMarie

PaulRowell Run down of my process: I go into the Advanced settings page and change the HiDPI Mode to DPI Unaware. The pop-up appears stating that I have to restart the program in order for the change to take effect. As soon as I click the x to close the Advanced setting page, the HiDPI setting changes back to default, shuts down and I am back at the OpenLP home screen with no change to the font or window sizes. Over and over. I haev uninstalled the program and reinstalled it with no change to this process.

Please let me know when the updated version is released and I will try again. To date, I have been unable to use OpenLP for our chapel services and will need to find something else until I can get this program going. I used OpenLP a few years back and was always pleased with the program. I came back to it, and I hope that I can use it in the future...

Thanks for any assistance...

PaulRowell

AnnaMarie You need to click on the OK button at the bottom of the Advanced Settings page not the X to close the page..

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mrslorimerritt

Hi, after downloading the Windows App, when I open the program i see this... How do I fix it?

PaulRowell

mrslorimerritt
I've not seen the missing menu. Can you try running the debug version of OpenLP and post the log to see if there is anything in it that helps to identify issue?

Have you installed OpenLP on this computer in the past?

Could you try running the portable version to see if that also has a missing menu?

Once you get your menu back then you will need to follow the steps for Problem 1 at the start of this post.