Questions tagged [high-dpi]
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How do I run Java apps upscaled on a high-DPI display?
I'm trying to run a Java app (JAR file) on a high-DPI display on Windows 10. The app uses Swing and thus isn't DPI-aware. Normally when I run an application that isn't DPI-aware, Windows will scale it ...
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How to make Google Chrome honor my Windows DPI setting?
Google Chrome doesn't seem to respect my DPI setting in Windows. I run at 150 DPI, but Chrome ignores that, meaning that images and text are teeeeeeny tiny.
I hit:
Ctrl + +
Ctrl + +
to zoom in. ...
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How to force high-dpi scaling?
Short Version
How can i force an application to be high-dpi scaled?
Pretend there is an application, who's developers manifested it as high-dpi aware, when it really isn't. How can i force dpi-...
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Can I scale (stretch) a Remote Desktop session locally?
How can I view a 1080p RDP session in stretched fullscreen on a 2160p (UHD) display?
I am using high-DPI screens with a UHD native resolution.
I would like to have a full-screen remote desktop ...
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How do I make Windows scale the taskbar correctly after I switch to monitors with different DPIs?
I have a laptop that has a native 3200x1800 15" high-DPI display, and a docking station connected to two 1920x1200 23" monitors.
If I sign in while the external monitors are disconnected, the task ...
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Overriding High DPI Scaling from the Command Line
I am compiling and building an OpenCV app on Windows 10, which shows some images.
I want to overrride the high DPI scaling behavior and set it to "Application".
I can do this fine on the .exe file ...
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DPI Scaling in Windows 8.1 via command line
I'd like to create a keyboard shortcut to quickly and easily change the DPI scale on my machine, by means of creating a small macro to run upon detection of the keyboard shortcut.
In Windows 8.1, the ...
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How to upscale the interface of IntelliJ IDEA/WebStorm?
I may change the font size in work area using ctrl+mouse wheel. Can i also change the program interface size? (I use high ppi monitor)
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Windows 10 dual monitor - lower res monitor is blurry
I have two monitors on my desktop computer running Windows 10.
1- Dell 2560 x 1440
2- HP 1920 x 1200
In "Customize your display", if I set both monitors at 100%, everything is sharp. If I set both ...
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Visual Studio on 4k monitor
I just upgraded to a 4k monitor, and supposedly Visual Studio should be able to handle a high dpi monitor just fine. But it's not working for me and I'm not sure why. I have this same problem in ...
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How to set systemwide "XP style DPI scaling" in Windows 8.1?
I run my ThinkPad with a system DPI setting of 140%. In Windows 7 and 8, I enabled the "Use Windows XP style DPI scaling" checkbox in the Custom DPI Setting dialog. When this setting is off, non-DPI-...
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Windows applications resized incorrectly when moving between monitors with different resolutions and scaling
I have a new laptop that has a 4K display. It's set at the recommended 250% zoom level. I also have 2 Full HD monitors plugged into it (1920x1080) each set at the recommended zoom level of 100%. ...
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High DPI screen & Windows: how to make programs behave as on low-res screens?
I am using Windows 10 on a high resolution laptop screen. Some programs supports the high-res screen and look sharp. Some don't and look blurry, but still appear at the correct size. I'm happy with ...
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LICEcap doesn't respect High DPI settings on Windows 8 and 10
I attempted to make an animated gif screenshot of the image of my answer here using LICEcap, on windows 8.1. This is as a test and I selected the whole gif, and a small border around it.
I have a 4K ...
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Cannot disable DPI scaling for Visual Studio 2012
I would like high DPI enabled for most of the applications that I use on my 14" 1920x1080 laptop, except for a few like Visual Studio that benefits from the extra space. However, setting "disable high ...
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Using multiple screens with very different DPI simultaneously in Windows 8.1?
I'm running Windows 8.1 inside VMWare Fusion 6. I have two screens:
Macbook Pro Retina aka MBPr (15", 220 ppi)
External HDMI monitor (24", 96 ppi)
VMWare Fusion IS indeed allowing me to use the ...
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Scaling display for Mac OSX in VMWare
I'm running Mac OSX 10.10 under VMWare 12, my monitor is a 4K 27" display - so the text is tiny.
I opened System Preference -> Display -> Scaled, but the only option available is 3840 x 2160 (my 4K ...
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Synergy broken on Windows 8.1 + HDPI
When I run synergy and move the cursor to a client, the cursor goes invisible and sticks to the bottom right corner of the screen (triggering windows peek). This renders all computers useless until ...
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Windows 7 cannot turn off DPI/PPI scaling for an application
I have Windows 7 with DPI scaling set to 120 DPI. It makes some problems with older applications like clipped text, blurred graphics or too big text.
I'd like to disable DPI scaling for these ...
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Can I turn off high-DPI scaling for all applications? [duplicate]
I'm on a Windows 8.1 laptop (Thinkpad T440s). For some programs to not appear blurred/scaled, I have to access the .exe properties, go to Compatibility and "Disable display scaling on high DPI ...
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Chromebook: How do you increase the size of the Chrome webbrowser GUI?
I have a Chromebook with a small screen size and relatively high pixel count (aka resolution)[1]. Some of the text that normally would be easily readable on my large 27 inch screen is literally... 1/...
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Remote Desktop into Windows 8.1 PC with high DPI scaling
I recently attached two high DPI displays to my Windows 8.1 desktop PC. As a result I put the scaling (found at Screen Resolution > Make text ... larger or smaller) to 200%.
This has been an ...
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Turn OFF High DPI Scaling on a DLL file - Windows 10
High DPI scaling can be a pain sometimes, normally you just go to the EXE and turn it off manually. But how can you turn it off for a DLL file?
My problem is that I want to to turn it off for Windows ...
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Cygwin X on high DPI
On my Windows 10 Surface Pro (2736x1824 resolution), whenever I connect via PuTTY to an Ubuntu 14.04 server and run Eclipse or gVim over Cygwin X, the text and windows are extremely small.
I can drag ...
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How to disable DPI scaling for certain built-in system applications?
On windows 10, most built-in programs work well with high DPI, but some don't (the Hyper-V Manager for example).
For third party apps, I can change their compatibility settings.
How can I do this ...
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No "Extra Large icons" on High DPI laptop (Windows 10)
I have a high DPI laptop (3200×1800, 13" screen. Hardware is Lenovo Yoga2Pro), which I hate for these reasons.
My specific question is about the size of thumbnail icons in native Windows (10).
The ...
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High DPI VMWare
My display is 4k. When I run VMWare, my linux guests look like postage stamps. Sadly, none of them support HDPI scaling (Running LXDE/XFCE mainly). I'm also interested in "Unity Mode", but ...
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Vista DPI Scaling: Cannot disable DPI Scaling for Wireshark
I'm trying to disable dpi scaling for Wireshark, except Windows won't let me:
Yet i pick any other random executable in the folder, uninstall.exe for instance, i can do it fine:
What gives?
i know ...
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HIGHDPIAWARE for all apps in Windows 10?
I'm using Windows 10 and currently, I specifically set for each app, the HIGHDPIAWARE (high-DPI scaling) attribute in registry key which is found in :
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\...
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Blurry screen when using 1/2 native resolution
I have a 3200x1800 13" laptop running windows 10.
Many legacy apps have terrible DPI scaling and I attempted to avoid this issue by simply setting my resolution to 1600x900. My thought would be that ...
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Can I set a display's DPI in Windows 8.1?
I want to tell Windows what the DPI is of one of my displays.
I have a Windows 8.1 laptop (an Asus Zenbook Infinity) which has a 2560x1440 display; which needs high DPI support in order to be usable. ...
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Fonts appear UGLY in Apache OpenOffice 4 for Windows
In Apache OpenOffice 4 for Windows, fonts are ugly! While text in Microsoft Word is crisp, in Apache OpenOffice, it is blurred as if "artistic rendering -> translucent glass" special effect was added. ...
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RemoteApp doesn't apply correct scaling initially
I have a large app that we are delaying supporting dynamic DPI for. Currently, when we launch our app via RemoteApp (RDP to our Windows Server 2016 server) on a high DPI screen, the text and controls ...
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Enforce blurry scaling on high dpi
I have a 4K 15 inch screen set with scaling on 200% with the new Windows 10 display settings (not via the old Control Panel). Of course there are some old (and also recent unfortunately) applications ...
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change Firefox font size based on window location in multi-monitor setup
My laptop monitor has a much higher pixel density then my external monitors, and I'd like to be able to increase Firefox's global font size using something like NoSquint, but only when the window is ...
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Linux Mint Cinnamon HiDPI scaled with xrandr -- laggy interface?
I am running Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.
I have two 4K monitors running their native display.
Everything is too small for me.
Then I turn on HiDPI scaling in the Cinnamon settings under General.
This ...
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How do I scale default app size smaller than "Default" in Windows 8.1?
I'm on a 1920x1080 pixel, 15.1" laptop running Windows 8.1. Some of my apps (Eclipse, SourceTree, pgAdmin, Chrome) render larger than I would like, fitting far less content than on Windows 7.
I can "...
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App to switch between video profiles in a high-DPI laptop
I have a Lenovo Ideapad Yoga 2 Pro, which sports a high-DPI 13" 3200x1800 screen.
Since using that with normal Windows app would be impossible, it ships with "DPI scaling" in Windows set to 200%.
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Virtualbox guests are upsampled & blurry due to DPI scaling from Windows Host, and disabling it has no affect
I have 4k laptop, so DPI scaling is what Windows uses for apps that don't automatically scale.
Rightclicking VirtualBox > Properties > Compatibility > Disable DPI Scaling should do the trick. However,...
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Windows setting "Fix scaling for apps" - what does it do?
In the Windows 10 settings (as of version 1809), there is a setting "Fix scaling for apps" (under Settings -> Display -> Advanced Scaling Settings), with a toggle switch that says:
Let Windows try ...
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Windows 8.1 VM: full resolution on iMac Retina 5K (5120 x 2880) and VMware Fusion 7
I am able to run a Windows 7 VM at full native resolution on a iMac with a Retina 5K display (HiDPI / Retina, at 5120 x 2880) using VMware Fusion 7.
Windows 8.1, though, does not list any resolution ...
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Text is blurry on normal-DPI external display with Windows 8.1 and high-DPI laptop display
I have a laptop with a high DPI screen; its resolution is 1920×1080 while it is 13.3". I have enabled the Windows 8.1 style DPI handling (i.e., the "Let me choose one scaling level for all my ...
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Windows 10 update made most of my programs big and blurry
I recently upgraded to windows 10 from windows 8.1 pro. As a result, many of my programs are scaled big and blurry. Even the default windows one like device manager. See how it is kind of fuzzy and ...
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Windows 8.1 highdpi - fuzzy fonts on secondary FullHD screen in highdpi optimized apps
I just started using a laptop with a 3k (2880 x 1620) 15" display (MSI GS60 2QE).
I've hooked up my FullHD 22" display as a secondary screen and would like to use that side-by-side with the laptop.
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High-DPI with Ubuntu 16.04 on Hyper-V
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 on a Hyper-V virtual machine hosted on Windows 10. It all runs on computer with a 4k UHD display, so the high dpi scaling (200%) is enabled on Windows.
My problem is by ...
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Windows DPI scaling: fix specific app with tiny text
I have a Windows 8.1 laptop (Dell XPS) with a high-DPI screen (15" 3840x2160), and two external monitors which are normal DPI (19" 1920x1200). (No font changes from defaults.)
Windows 8 seems to know ...
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Fixing Firefox Quantum HiDPI scaling across multiple displays
I have a laptop with a 3840x2160 screen and a second monitor with a 1680x1050 resolution. The standard Firefox DPI is far too small on the builtin screen, but when I scale the layout.css....
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Windows 10 monitor scaling blurry
Circumstances
Windows 10 Version 1709 x64
One 4K (27") and one 2K (27") monitor
Nvidia 1050 TI
Feel free to ask for more information, if you need them.
The Problem
Everything works fine if I don't ...
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Disable high DPI scaling in Microsoft Edge
Is there any way to disable the High DPI scaling of Microsoft Edge?
That UI looks awfully big if my DPI is set for 125%.
I have it disabled on Chrome and Firefox. But this may be the only thing ...
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Bitmap Scaling On Individual Windows in HiDPI Display on Linux
Both Windows 8.1 or newer and macOS will resize an individual window on bitmap basis (resulting in blurry windows but proportionally correct) of an application if that application's window doesn't ...
