Has anyone encountered a situation where scaling w...
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napperley
05/08/2019, 4:34 AMHas anyone encountered a situation where scaling works correctly for one IDE (IntelliJ) but is broken for another IDE (PyCharm) on Linux even though both IDE's use the sample platform (Idea)?
napperley
05/08/2019, 4:38 AMTried these custom VM options:
# Increase scaling for 1080p resolution on a 14" display.
-Dide.ui.scale=1.2
-Dsun.java2d.uiScale.enabled=true
Unfortunately the options have no effect 🙁 .
napperley
05/08/2019, 4:39 AMFor some strange reason PyCharm isn't getting the scaling information from the same source as IntelliJ (from Cinnamon).
napperley
05/08/2019, 4:42 AMTo think that it was a huge battle just to get web apps to scale correctly (painful with Firefox ; Chrome isn't much better).
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kevinmost
05/08/2019, 5:13 AMare both based off the same IDEA version? Maybe PyCharm is still based off an older IDEA version?
kevinmost
05/08/2019, 5:13 AMDPI scaling is the main reason I still can't see myself switching to Linux 😞
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napperley
05/08/2019, 7:06 AMWhat is missing from all the Idea platform based IDE's is a easy way to manually override DPI scaling 🔍 .
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karelpeeters
05/08/2019, 7:28 AM@kevinmost On what platform does it work? Windows?
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napperley
05/08/2019, 7:45 AMFrom what I understand the Idea platform based IDE's heavily rely on the automatic DPI scaling system which is built into the platform. However as you can see from my case the system doesn't always work correctly hence it is vital there is a manual override available that is guaranteed to work regardless of what OS is used.
napperley
05/08/2019, 7:50 AMPresumably PyCharm is using a older version of the Idea platform than IntelliJ. Historically PyCharm lags behind IntelliJ when it comes to using the latest version of the Idea platform.
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tmg
05/08/2019, 8:44 AMHave you created a ticket on jetbrains' youtrack? it seems like something that should be there.
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napperley
05/08/2019, 10:17 PMHaven't created a YouTrack ticket on the issue. I suspect that DPI scaling on desktop devices has its limits, even so there should always be a manual override available (configuration and GUI based).
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kevinmost
05/08/2019, 10:29 PM@karelpeeters Windows and Mac both have good DPI support at this point. I can plug in an external monitor and use my laptop's internal HiDPI display with my normal DPI monitor
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karelpeeters
05/08/2019, 10:32 PMI've got the same thing, windows hidpi laptop and normal dpi monitor, and every time I (un)plug it the text gets blurry until a restart. Maybe I need to look into it more but it definitely doesn't work out of the box for me.
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napperley
05/09/2019, 11:18 PMUsed these VM options which fix the UI scaling issues in PyCharm:
-Dide.ui.scale=1.2
-Dsun.java2d.uiScale.enabled=false
napperley
05/09/2019, 11:19 PMI'm assuming that IntelliJ has
Dsun.java2d.uiScale.enablednapperley
05/09/2019, 11:23 PMCan confirm with PyCharm that the -Dide.ui.scale=1.2 line can be removed and that only the -Dsun.java2d.uiScale.enabled=false line is needed to fix UI scaling.
napperley
05/09/2019, 11:24 PMWonder why PyCharm doesn't use the same VM options as IntelliJ 🤔 .
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