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ConstruKction

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Registered: 2014-04-01

Posts: 12

Uneven Title Bar Scaling on HiDPI Display (GNOME)

Good day.

I recently bought a ThinkPad T540p which is equipped with a 3k screen.

I read that many DE's don't support HiDPI displays properly, however, GNOME does, indeed, do a splendid job in that regard, though, the Window Scaling option in gnome-tweak-tool doesn't seem to affect all applications (it is set to '2').

Non-GTK software, such as Clementine, Skype, Chrome, MySQL Workbench, do not have a proper window scaling compared to the GTK software.

This is how it looks like:

As you can see, the Chrome title bar is tiny compared to Nautilus' title bar. Any idea how to fix this?

Last edited by ConstruKction (2014-12-07 04:24:58)

ooo

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Registered: 2013-04-10

Posts: 1,638

Re: Uneven Title Bar Scaling on HiDPI Display (GNOME)

see the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Hi … gle_Chrome
apparently you'd have to recompile chromium with additional flag to enable experimental HiDPI support. There's info for other applications as well.

augustob

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From: Florianópolis, Brazil

Registered: 2006-03-17

Posts: 135

Re: Uneven Title Bar Scaling on HiDPI Display (GNOME)

Chrome is still terrible at HiDPI. I actually moved to Firefox until they get their stuff together.

Edit: I tried the latest -dev, and all the DPI-related flags I could find.

Last edited by augustob (2014-12-10 23:27:33)