Side Toolbars not fully not visible on lower resolutions PCs

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Hi All

version 7.0.8 (below the info data required)

A friend of mine, installed it on a old computer (2016) which is 1366x768

In PCB he can’t see the full right side toolbar. So, he can’t see the following icons:

  • Show vias in outline mode
  • Show tracks in outline mode
  • Show hide the appearance manager
  • Show hide the properties manager

and on the right side bar, he is missing 5 icons:

  • Add a wrapped text item
  • Add an aligned linear dimension
  • Delete clicked items
  • Place origin point for the drill file and components …
  • Interactively measure distance between points

is there anything doable here?

Application: KiCad PCB Editor x64 on x64

Version: 7.0.8, release build

Libraries:
wxWidgets 3.2.2
FreeType 2.12.1
HarfBuzz 6.0.0
FontConfig 2.14.1
libcurl/7.88.1-DEV Schannel zlib/1.2.13

Platform: Windows 10 (build 19045), 64-bit edition, 64 bit, Little endian, wxMSW

Build Info:
Date: Sep 29 2023 18:44:47
wxWidgets: 3.2.2 (wchar_t,wx containers)
Boost: 1.81.0
OCC: 7.7.1
Curl: 7.88.1-DEV
ngspice: 41
Compiler: Visual C++ 1936 without C++ ABI

Build settings:
KICAD_SPICE=ON

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is there anything doable here?

The official system requirement states: “Screen resolution of 1280x1024 works but 1920x1080 or higher is recommended”.
He could play with global Preferences–>common–>User interface–>icon scale.
And he should make sure that the windows desktop scale is set to 100% (otherwise he will lose even more screen area).

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Thank you so much, I set it up via Team Viewer and it works …

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