On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Dave Page <dp...@pgadmin.org> wrote:
> Hi > > On Sun, Oct 2, 2016 at 11:43 PM, <vik...@troja.ch> wrote: > > Hi list, hi Dave, > > > > On Windows 10 using a high res screen with high dpi scaling turned on and > > set to 200%, the text in the pgAdmin 4 (standalone) interface becomes > almost > > illegible. > > > > The issue seems to be that pgAdmin claims to Windows that is high dpi > aware > > when it actually isn’t. See http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html for more > info > > about how QT deals with high dpi issues. > > I think it's more subtle than that. Most of the dev team run Macs, and > high dpi support seems to work fine for us. We have had some issues > reported - but on my retina MBP for example, pgAdmin displays nicely > at all scaling levels. > > > The short term solution would be to make the app dpi unaware, thus > letting > > Windows take care of the scaling. > > Have you tried setting QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR? Does it make a > difference on Windows? > > I can confirm that setting the environment variable QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1, or 0 for that matter, makes no difference. I even tried setting the following parameters in your qt.conf: [Platforms] WindowsArguments = dpiawareness=0 (and 1, and 2) without any effect.
