This is an extremely minor peeve, but I recommend the "Suspend" and "No New Tasks" button positions in BOINC Manager Projects tab be swapped. "Suspend" is too close to "Update", and if you're momentarily careless (like me, too often) you'll suspend a project instead of requesting an update. Normally, this would be no big deal, unless the project has shitty checkpoint management (I'm looking at you, GPUGRID!), in which case you can waste many hours of GPU/CPU time .

Or maybe add an "Are You Sure?" confirmation on "Suspend".

$0.02

Advanced view or Simple view?
There's quite a bit of distance between all buttons and menu options on my BOINC, but I am watching BOINC Manager on a 50 inch TV, with Windows scaling everything 300% larger.

That said, if you truly want it changed, you can download the source code, plus the required software, change the buttons in code and compile it, then have your own BOINC Manager. See https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/Building-BOINC-software for that. Of course, if that seems too daunting, you can always ask for help here, maybe someone wants to build it for you.

change the buttons in code and compile it, then have your own BOINC Manager.

I may have got compiling on XUbuntu down to the stage where I can close to guarantee it working first time but I have never messed about with the buttons or other parts of the code for that matter. I can't remember what they are but Ubuntu without the X is missing two or three more libraries that get installed as standard on XUbuntu. Also if you do a minimal install instead of the standard desktop which I tried for running a second instance in a VM, there are a lot more libraries I needed to chase down. I have taken to doing a full desktop install and then after compiling BOINC, removing Libre Office and a whole bunch of other stuff i don't need in the VM.

In reply to Dave's message of 3 May 2026:

removing Libre Office and a whole bunch of other stuff i don't need in the VM.

Okay, I'll bite, you need Libre Office to build BOINC (Manager)? 😂

Okay, I'll bite, you need Libre Office to build BOINC (Manager)? 😂

I have no idea what libraries get installed for which programs with the desktop version that don't with the minimal installation. I just know that with the minimal one, the instructions in the post I created in the documentation section need a whole lot of extra libraries. (about six or eight is my vague memory.) You are right in identifying the manager though. Building just the client works with those instructions on a minimal install, indeed I think the instructions have some libs that are superfluous for a client only build.

These are the prerequisites to build the client and manager under Linux: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/SoftwarePrereqsUnix

In reply to Jord's message of 4 May 2026:

These are the prerequisites to build the client and manager under Linux: https://github.com/BOINC/boinc/wiki/SoftwarePrereqsUnix

I have used that link myself in the past. Just a shame that distributions don't all have the same selection of those libraries installed by default. Now, I always stick to the XFCE version of Ubuntu as one, it is slightly leaner than Gnome and secondly, having compiled the client several times using it, I know I just need to add the libraries I listed in my post in the documentation section of these boards.