cygwin install blurry on high dpi Windows 10

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Tue Jun 2 21:28:37 GMT 2020


On 29/05/2020 17:32, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Am 29.05.2020 um 18:05 schrieb Jon Turney:
>> On 27/05/2020 12:41, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> My office laptop is Windows 10 with a high DPI display.
>>>
>>> I found that the installer is blurry, especially inside the window. The
>>> title of the window is clear.
>>>
>>> Is this something that has been reported before? If nobody has 
>>> reported it,
>>> then I would like to report the issue here.
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this issue.
>>
>> This is Windows doing "dpi virtualization" (it reports 96 dpi to the 
>> app, and then upscales what it draws to the actual dpi)
>>
>> Since we (now) use standard UI elements for everything in setup, it 
>> should 'just' be a case of marking setup as being able to handle being 
>> told the real dpi.
>>
>> I built an updated setup with that change:
>>
>> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.904-4-gaa071e.x86_64.exe
>> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.904-4-gaa071e.x86.exe
 >
> Looks fine for me, sharp as a knife. However, also the font size is a 
> half-point smaller and looks quite spiddly, maybe you could make it a 
> point larger?

Do you mean change the font size everywhere?

I'm really not keen on that, as it probably means checking and adjusting 
the layout of every dialog (and then looks too small for those of us 
cavemen still using 96 dpi displays)


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