Clipped text on (application) menu [SOLVED]

[mchandler]

Has anyone noticed text getting clipped on the application menu? Any character with a descender (q,y,p) looks like it's cut off.

Screenshot (text is q u i p):

Screenshot from 2019-02-15 18-48-43.png

I have large text enabled in Accessibility > Visual and my system info is as follows:

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Kernel: 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
v: 7.3.0 Desktop: Cinnamon 4.0.9 wm: muffin dm: LightDM Distro: Linux Mint 19.1 Tessa 
base: Ubuntu 18.04 bionic 

Device-1: Intel driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:5a85 
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.19.6 driver: modesetting unloaded: fbdev,vesa 
resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz

[smurphos]

That's a deficiency in your Desktop theme in that the search entry box doesn't expand for scaled fonts.

You can change this in your Themes GUI accessible from the menu.

The stock Cinnamon theme suffers the issue. The stock alternatives Linux-Mint, Mint-Y and Mint-X should be OK.

[roblm]

Another solution is to increase the height of the Search window by editing the cinnamon.css file for the Cinnamon theme. First use this command in the Terminal to make a copy of that file:

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sudo cp /usr/share/cinnamon/theme/cinnamon.css /usr/share/cinnamon/theme/cinnamon.css.copy

Use this command to open the cinnamon.css file for editing:
xed admin:///usr/share/cinnamon/theme/cinnamon.css

In the Search > Find window, type: menu-search-entry {

Change the value of 15 to 18 in this line: height: 15px;

Save the file. Restart Cinnamon by pressing Alt+F2, type the letter R and press ENTER.

[smurphos]

height: 1.5em; or similar 1+ em value is what it should really be in the first place to scale the box height with the font size...or a min-height...or not defined at all.

[mchandler]

That's a deficiency in your Desktop theme in that the search entry box doesn't expand for scaled fonts.

You can change this in your Themes GUI accessible from the menu.

The stock Cinnamon theme suffers the issue. The stock alternatives Linux-Mint, Mint-Y and Mint-X should be OK.

Thanks. Switching to the stock Linux Mint desktop fixed the issue.