Android system buttons taking up screen area
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:56 pm
Hello everyone!
Today I received my Moto Z3 Play which I thought would be great for using DraStic, because on the 2160x1080 screen two 4x DS screens would fit beside each other, which is important to me because I prefer the screens to be scaled by nearest neighbor or "None" filter, which only looks good for integer scaling factors. But I was disappointed to see that the system buttons take up a large enough portion of the screen that the screens wouldn't fit beside each other with 4x size. When I tried to get the secondary screen to snap to the right side of the screen it actually moved it as far right as if the system buttons weren't there, which must be a bug.
I tried to get around this by changing the display size to small in the Android display settings, which makes the portion of the screen taken up by the system buttons smaller, but the area that is cut off from the DraStic screen real estate is still the same as with the default settings. When I set it to large to see what would then happen I noticed that DraStic then behaved exactly as I wanted, not cutting off this part of the screen at all! But why can't it always behave like this? I guess you could say I have found a workaround but I don't want to change the display size of my phone to large permanently and changing it before and after using DraStic would be quite a hassle.
If there is a setting to make DraStic do what I want, I missed it when I looked thoroughly through the settings. If there is a way to do this, I would greatly appreciate if someone could point that out to me. Otherwise, I would like to request this option to be added in a future update.
Today I received my Moto Z3 Play which I thought would be great for using DraStic, because on the 2160x1080 screen two 4x DS screens would fit beside each other, which is important to me because I prefer the screens to be scaled by nearest neighbor or "None" filter, which only looks good for integer scaling factors. But I was disappointed to see that the system buttons take up a large enough portion of the screen that the screens wouldn't fit beside each other with 4x size. When I tried to get the secondary screen to snap to the right side of the screen it actually moved it as far right as if the system buttons weren't there, which must be a bug.
I tried to get around this by changing the display size to small in the Android display settings, which makes the portion of the screen taken up by the system buttons smaller, but the area that is cut off from the DraStic screen real estate is still the same as with the default settings. When I set it to large to see what would then happen I noticed that DraStic then behaved exactly as I wanted, not cutting off this part of the screen at all! But why can't it always behave like this? I guess you could say I have found a workaround but I don't want to change the display size of my phone to large permanently and changing it before and after using DraStic would be quite a hassle.
If there is a setting to make DraStic do what I want, I missed it when I looked thoroughly through the settings. If there is a way to do this, I would greatly appreciate if someone could point that out to me. Otherwise, I would like to request this option to be added in a future update.