I have tried scaling it and everything but the window is so small I can hardly see the icons, is there a fix to this? I have a Dell XPS 15 9530. The display is 3200x1800.

Same problem here, 3200x1800 resolution on a Razer Blade. Windows 8.1.

Edit preferences.txt for this kind of set-up (but not while the Arduino software is running). Look for configurations like this: editor.window.height.default=800 editor.window.height.min=500 editor.window.height.min.macosx=450 editor.window.height.min.windows=530 editor.window.width.default=1200 …

On Linux, I just maximize the window and I have set in the Preferences a bigger font size. You only need to set the font size once though you may depending on OS maximize the window each time you start it.

I try to adjust preferences.txt but no luck. One thing that really help that using external editor. Icons is really small. [image]

Long-term, I believe the transition to 4K displays with much higher than 100 DPI resolution is going to require a lot of work in the Arduino IDE. The editor font can scale. Java is responsible for rendering the menus. But the toolbar is fixed bitmaps. Significant programming work is going to be nee…

High DPI displays are just going to get more and more common, so I hope someone is working on a plan to fix this. You should be able to display fonts based on point size and absolute size rather depending on pixels for dimensions. It's not just the toolbars which are the improper height, it is other…

Using: Windows 8 Lenovo laptop 2560x1440 Would anyone like to try to read "About Arduino" on my screen? It comes out rendered about 1.75" wide and 1.5" high. Good luck! I successfully changed the font and font size in preferences.txt but this has no effect in the About dialog box. editor.font=Con…

If anyone is working on this problem, they haven't said anything on the Arduino Developers Mail List. There's no apparent work happening on any of the branches or commits on Arduino's github repository. Internally, Arduino does use fixed bitmaps and pixel coordinates for some things, like the blue/…

Is there a github issue reported for the problem?

Arduino IDE window really small on High DPI Dispay?

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