Hello everyone:
In home i work with my laptop as only screen. Routing a PCB i found that some screens are more bigger than screen. Fox example if i select one via and one track the window size does not fit on screen, the OK and Cancel buttons are out of vision range.
There are a 2 or 3 windows with the same issue. Happily are only few windows with the issue
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I dont know why this post appear greyed on the post list. It is vissible for everyone?
Thanks you
After you have read a topic it goes gray.
Your monitor seems really small or you have a large scale factor. On my fullHD screen this menu only takes about half the height of the screen
Thanks to both.
Now i know why was grey.
I imagine the in a more bigger screen, or srinking the screen the window will fit. I only have the default monitor of my laptop (15 inch) and if i reduce the scale, and i can´t read.
I think that can be a good idea add a scroll bar at side to this window and similars .
Best Regards
Seriously . . . if you have to scale it that much with the result being that the resolution is too small for KiCad you should be wearing reading glasses.
Sorry, i have 52 years, and use glases, but i have not an fullHD screen, so the dots are more bigger. Obviously i also use the screen to read email, news, datasheet, etc.But this is off topic.
I only was make a point about small screens, and some fixed size windows with a relatively easy solution. think that not everybody can purchase a big screen, or HDscreen, and we can include them.
I feel your pain, I work on a 15", 1920 x 1080, 100% scaling, laptop screen . . . I’m 59 and use 2.0x mag glasses . . . sometimes they are not enough.
It is off topic . . . just trying to help. 
For almost my whole life I have been struggling with monitors. They were always too small. When 14" CRT’s were still mainstream, I bought an 17" IIyama. (That was a really nice monitor back then). I was quite late to the LCD monitors because of my IIyama, and for about 10 years I’ve been working with a dual monitor setup. Both 1920*1200. One in landscape for graphics, and one in portrait for text. In that time my biggest annoyance was that many websites did not scale narrower then around 1280 pixels. They were just a tad to wide for 1200 pixels in portrait.
For a few years, my monitor is a comfy 107cm diagonal monitor 3840 by 2160 pixels. And this is the first time in my life that I’m not struggling with windows bumping into the sides of my monitor. It has relatively big pixels, (around 0.25mm) and for a few years I was wondering why my monitor looked so sharp, I could barely see pixel artifacts, I thought that “they” had finally come to a point that sub-pixel anti aliasing worked. I’m now also 53 and eye sight is deteriorating further. When I put on my reading glasses now I can (barely) see the individual pixels and their artifacts again, but I do not use reading glasses (yet) for PC stuff (I do need them for many mechanical things, for small stuff I have a stereo microscope). For PC stuff I just adjust window and text size to whatever feels comfortable at the moment. Zooming in/out in KiCad has always been normal, but I’m now also zooming in/out in text based windows. (Nearly?) all of them work by holding down [Ctrl] and then rotating the scroll wheel on my mouse.
I don’t really. I am more wondering why people do this to themselves. Big monitors such as my 107cm version are very affordable. You can have a decent one for EUR500, and it probably lasts more then 10 years. That is EUR 50 per year. I can’t do serious PC work on a laptop either. I tried a few second hand ones, but both the screens and the keyboards were so cramped that I just don’t use it at all. I just need a decent desk with keyboard, fairly sized monitor and some extra room around it for notes, electronic projects and a cup of coffee to get anything done.
In the screenshot below, I did:
The difference is … misleading. They are from different windows. they have different contents. After some more fiddling, I finally found the right window. First select both a track and a via on the PCB, and then edit their properties:
And this also present a workaround. When only track properties are edited, the window is even smaller. Here a 100% sized version (forum software will probably scale it, so click on the picture and then “Original Size”). If you set your OS to magnify, and then KiCad to shrink again, you probably get scaling artifacts, but I have not verified this.
I don’t know the origin of the scaling. I just use 100% always. In these modern times scale factors can be applied from different sources. KiCad has internal window scale factors, but your OS has it too. Have you tried setting both to 100%?
I also had a look at:
Screen resolution of 1280x1024 works but 1920x1080 or higher is recommended. At lower resolutions toolbar buttons may be hidden but corresponding commands should be reachable via menu.
The hight of my “both track and via” properties window is 843 pixels, and that should be usable for any monitor, it’s far within what Kicad specifies as it’s minimum requirements.
Dear Paul. This is the point !!. € 500 is 3x times the complete salary of an argentinian citizen and 6x the income of a retired citizen. And most student uses the govern given laptop with screen of 12".
Dont worry, y was hope for a small turn around (a slidebar) to be more inclusive. If is no possible, is ok.
Ask about what you want as a “Feature request”. The worst that can happen is a “No”. 
Ok, Thanks you, very much.
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