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Re: [platform-swt-dev] Testing HDPI support with a HDPI monitor?

On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Leo Ufimtsev <lufimtse@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Is 400 important for you?

No, I'm just playing around.

>
>
> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 5:18 PM, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Yes. Eclipse looks funny with that setting. :-)
>>
>> Am 30.05.2016 10:58 nachm. schrieb "Leo Ufimtsev" <lufimtse@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>
>>> Scale factor 400? Is that for 8k displays?
>>>
>>> I thought 4k uses scale factor of 200. Or are you specifically testing
>>> oversized scaling?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Thanks Markus (and Arun and Leo), this works fine.
>>>>
>>>> Using scale factor 400 hows IMHO that we should replace the custom drawn
>>>> icons like view minimize Icon with a png file, the drawings scales horrible.
>>>>
>>>> Best regards, Lars
>>>>
>>>> Am 30.05.2016 7:31 nachm. schrieb "Markus Keller"
>>>> <markus_keller@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>>>>
>>>> The simplest way on GTK is to set the GDK_DPI_SCALE environment variable
>>>> before launching eclipse.
>>>> E.g. for 150%:
>>>>
>>>> GDK_DPI_SCALE=1.5 ./eclipse
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > ./eclipse -Dswt.autoScale=2
>>>> This doesn't do anything because you don't pass the -D... as vm
>>>> argument.
>>>>
>>>> To *only* change the SWT scale factor (but not the fonts that get scaled
>>>> by the OS), you would use the following:
>>>> ./eclipse -vmargs -Dswt.autoScale=200
>>>>
>>>> Note that the swt.autoScale property is not meant to be used by end
>>>> users. It's just there as a fallback in case the automatic detection somehow
>>>> went terribly wrong.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Windows 7, there's no good way to test this other than using the
>>>> Display control panel to choose a percentage or set a custom text size
>>>> (DPI), and then logging out.
>>>>
>>>> I'll finish and push the N&N entry about this ASAP.
>>>>
>>>> Markus
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 2016-05-30 14:41:23:
>>>>
>>>> > From: Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> > To: "Eclipse Platform SWT component developers list."
>>>> > <platform-swt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> > Date: 2016-05-30 14:41
>>>> > Subject: [platform-swt-dev] Testing HDPI support with a HDPI monitor?
>>>> > Sent by: platform-swt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi,
>>>> >
>>>> > I do not have a HDPI monitor. Can I still test the new HDPI support?
>>>> >
>>>> > I tried specifying the scale factor on the command line but this does
>>>> > not make a difference.
>>>> >
>>>> > ./eclipse -Dswt.autoScale=10
>>>> >
>>>> > or ./eclipse -Dswt.autoScale=2
>>>> >
>>>> > result in the same L&L of IDE.
>>>> >
>>>> > Best regards, Lars
>>>> >
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