Display problems Darktable

Hi everyone,
I attach the screenshot of how I view Darktable 4.6.1 on my 21’ 1920x1080 Mac with Ventura 13.6.5.
In your opinion, is there any incompatibility? On Windows 11 it’s perfect.
Screenshot

Thank’s

I am not sure what the problem is? I looked at the screenshot and was unsure what concerned you.

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On my windows notebook the darktable graphical interface is correct. There are problems on the Mac. As you can see, the interface does not display well, as if you were viewing an html page without css. I can assure you that on Windows it is perfect.

This is a screenshot taken from the official darktable website:
Site Darktable

This is my screenshot:
My screenshot

seems the css is completely off. how did you install darktable?
maybe run darktable with a from command line
/Applications/darktable.app/Contents/MacOS/darktable --configdir ~/.config/darktable_test
to ignore your current config

Thank you very much, with your terminal suggestion darktabel starts perfectly. The terminal gives me this:

(process:39091): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 16:05:12.356: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(darktable:39091): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 16:05:14.044: gtk_window_add_accel_group: assertion 'GTK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed

Is there a way to display it correctly even when I click on its icon without always having to launch it from the terminal? Thank you very much.

ok then it’s your current config. you might now check your user.css in your ~/.config/darktable directory. Maybe there’s stuff messing up the ui.

ok I’ll try.
I installed darktabe by downloading the dmg file from the official site: darktable-4.6.1-x86_64.dmg. I have an imac with intel i5.
Did I do something wrong?

Unfortunately darktable has now stopped working, as soon as I open it it closes. I attach the report if there is anyone who would like to help me, thanks.

(process:1480): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 17:52:12.398: g_object_set: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(darktable:1480): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 17:52:12.951: gtk_window_add_accel_group: assertion 'GTK_IS_WINDOW (window)' failed
2024-04-27 17:52:12.952 darktable[1480:23566] *** Assertion failure in -[NSMenuItem initWithTitle:action:keyEquivalent:], NSMenuItem.m:467
2024-04-27 17:52:12.970 darktable[1480:23566] *** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInternalInconsistencyException', reason: 'Invalid parameter not satisfying: aString != nil'
*** First throw call stack:
(
	0   CoreFoundation                      0x00007ff8014ac11a __exceptionPreprocess + 242
	1   libobjc.A.dylib                     0x00007ff800fd10b7 objc_exception_throw + 48
	2   Foundation                          0x00007ff802383cd8 -[NSCalendarDate initWithCoder:] + 0
	3   AppKit                              0x00007ff8044c54b4 -[NSMenuItem initWithTitle:action:keyEquivalent:] + 363
	4   libgtkmacintegration-gtk3.4.dylib   0x0000000108896f0a gtkosx_application_set_menu_bar + 1052
	5   libdarktable.dylib                  0x0000000107c7ab00 dt_gui_gtk_init + 1200
	6   libdarktable.dylib                  0x0000000107ae2b83 dt_init + 8803
	7   darktable                           0x00000001073c7f3a main + 42
	8   dyld                                0x00007ff800ffe41f start + 1903
)
libc++abi: terminating due to uncaught exception of type NSException
Abort trap: 6

I’ve tried uninstalling and reinstalling it several times but it won’t start anymore.

not really - since the start with a plain new config doesn’t give that issue it’s obviously originated in the old config in ~/.config/darktable
uninstalling/reinstalling doesn’t affect this directory.
you might rename that directory to ~/.config/darktable.bck
then darktable recreates ~/.config/darktable on the next start with initial settings.
to get back tags/presets eg and former edits you might copy data.db and library.db from the renamed directory into the new generated ~/.config/darktable

I don’t know how to thank you, you solved my problem. Now darktable starts and loads the css file fine too!