[Solved] Ardour 6 and HiDPI scaling

d_fajardo · 2020-06-10 08:34:54

I have a 4K monitor. I was able to scale Ardour 5 satisfactorily by adding env variable to ardour.desktop with:

Exec=env GDK_SCALE=2 ardour5

However after the update to ardour 6, the scaling doesn't work anymore.
I tried a recommendation from reddit by creating /etc/profile.d/scaling.sh:

#! /bin/bash

export PLASMA_USE_QT_SCALING=1
export GDK_SCALE=2
export GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5

I can confirm that the env variables are exported but ardour still wouldn't scale although other gtk apps seem to obey.

Is there a way I can try to scale ardour 6 for HiDPI? It's just impossible to work with it at the current interface.

Running on KDE with xorg.

Last edited by d_fajardo (2020-06-10 11:00:26)

d_fajardo · 2020-06-10 11:00:00

I solved the issue. I uninstalled ardour, deleted all configuration files and reinstalled. All OK.

Arch Linux