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    Notification Font Size for Retroflag GPi

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    • ds17fD
      ds17f
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      I have a Retroflag GPi which was running 4.4 from the stock Jesse build. I did an upgrade to get to 4.6. I noticed that the on screen notifications (in the SNES emulator specifically) have changed. They now have a blue badge that pops up when, for example, I change the save state slot. This didn't exist on 4.4. I also did a stock install of 4.6 buster and I see the same change. So I believe this is specific to the retroarch upgrade.

      Unfortunately the text on these, and the other notifications (for example after I load state) are now unreadable. The font size is too small. When I change the font size in the /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfgthere does not seem to be an effect. The font doesn't change and remains illegible. When I make the same change in my 4.4 config I see the font size change.

      Can anybody speak to what's changed here and how to control it? Or for that matter help me troubleshoot and track down how to fix this?

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator
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        The notification font size is now set with a new set of configuration options - see https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/25161.

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        • ds17fD
          ds17f
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          Yeah, that's the field I was setting. Works in my 4.4, not in my 4.6. Fails in both a stock 4.6 and an upgraded 4.6 (from 4.4).

          Any reason why this would be disabled? Are there other settings that need to be set?

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          • mituM
            mitu Global Moderator @ds17f
            last edited by

            @ds17f said in Notification Font Size for Retroflag GPi:

            Any reason why this would be disabled? Are there other settings that need to be set?

            Did you read the entire topic ? There's another set of options that control the size of notifications messages' font - they're detailed in the topic. Did you try the new options and are not working ?

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            • ds17fD
              ds17f @mitu
              last edited by

              @mitu OMG, sorry. I'm dumb. I'm not sure how I missed the rest of the replies. Only saw the first 3.

              I'll check them out and post back. My apologies.

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              • ds17fD
                ds17f
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                Yay! @mitu you are awesome. Thank you!

                It turns out that the GPi uses the "windowed" version of the settings, so I needed to add the following to /opt/retropie/configs/all/retroarch.cfg

                menu_widget_scale_auto = "false"
                menu_widget_scale_factor_windowed = "2.75"
                

                For what it's worth I had actually stumbled on this setting when messing around but I set the non-windowed value (because it's full screen... I assumed that meant it wasn't windowed) and when that didn't fix it I moved on.

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