Questions tagged [high-dpi]
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Only 1 of 2 new 4K displays runs at native resolution
I am clueless what is wrong with my setup that won't use my new 4K screens with their native resolution. Before I would return the screens day after tomorrow, I thought I give it a last try and ask ...
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No HiDPI scaling in windowed mode on remote desktop session between two Windows 11 computers
I connect via built-in RDP from Win11 with 125% scaling to another Win11 machine with 200% (though that shouldn't matter).
If I set connection to fullscreen then remote session adopts 125% scaling but ...
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How to reduce icon spacing on folders when using a 4k screen on a WIN10
I'm using a 4k screen and icons on every folder look way too spaced. It is painful particularly when browsing pictures, since you can only see a few photos at a time, while the spacing in between is ...
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Run Java JAR file in background
I have a .jar file that acts weird with hdpi screens. When I run it directly by double-clicking on it, the text is very small and blurry, as if it wasn't hdpi-aware. But if I open my terminal and run ...
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Windows 10 Scaling Issue with Java 11 Application
We have recently upgraded an application which has been using Java 8 but was upgraded to Java 11 during the process.
Now we are faced with the following problem:
Users are working on a HiDPI Laptop (...
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DisplayLink Manager, BetterDisplay and HiDPI mode for 2k monitors on macOS 13
I have been using a 2k monitor with my 2021 MacBook Pro "M1 Pro". The native resolution is 2560x1440. The macOS operating system does not think it is HiDPI and refuses to provide the HiDPI ...
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Multi-hop RDP, high DPI (4K) scaling issue
I just replaced my two aging 25" monitors (1920x1080) with two new 27" 4K monitors (3840x2160). All works well locally with 150% or 175% scaling. It also works okay when connecting via RDP ...
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Application text and gui size is small
I have still not found how to fix this.
I tried 2 things to solve this :
Changing the properties of the Application.
Changing the Display setting costume scale.
But it just makes others are big but ...
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Override high DPI settings for Windows Media Player?
I am using Windows Media Player for playing music files, because there does not seem any decent free music player for Windows. VLC's interface sucks. Groove Music, which Microsoft is replacing WMP ...
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Windows 10 make text bigger problems with office apps
If I go on Windows 10 to Settings -> Display -> Make Text Bigger and drag the slider to increase text to 110% my office apps appear with fuzzy text. I'm not scaling though, but just making the ...
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How to change high DPI settings for programs in C:\Windows?
Windows 10, 64-bit. My personal laptop.
I need to enable the system scaler for high DPI mode for C:\Windows\hh.exe (the HTML help viewer), because it's not scaled properly on my machine.
However, for ...
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Is there any way to account for higher DPI scaling in case of Windows internal utilities
Because of high resolution of my displays I have to turn to using higher DPI scaling (125% and 150%). Windows 10 is smart enough to take it into account when rendering most of the program windows, so ...
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Jagged font issue on Full HDTV Display on Windows 10
Those who jump in as soon as seen the title, I know this is an ongoing problem for years and I just wanted to check if there has been any development about this issue. It seems Microsoft won't fix it ...
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Force "Scaling performed by Application" for all apps
Windows automatically scales DPI-unaware apps making them blurry. I am able to override this per-program in the program compatibility properties (resulting in the program being smaller, but not blurry)...
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Windows scales apps however it wants regardless its High DPI settings
As I have a 4K screen, Windows suggested to use 150% scaling which is just fine otherwise things are so small that it's barely readable.
So far so good, but now I have the following hapenning randomly:...
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