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When I open the Arduino IDE on my laptop (Windows 10), it opens up this smaller version of the IDE, which is completely unreadable. I have to change the font in preferences to 30-40 if I want the code to be somewhat legible, but the Verify, Upload, New, etc tabs are still illegible.

Has anyone ran into this before? Is this a bug?

Thanks!

(In the screenshot, I just stretched the window, It usually starts as a tiny box)

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I've seen issues with font size displaying wrong in some applications before (not with the IDE). IIRC it was some obscure windows font issue - but this may or may not apply to your problem :-/

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I have to change the font in preferences to 30-40 if I want the code to be somewhat legible, but the Verify, Upload, New, etc tabs are still illegible.

You can change other font sizes in lib/theme/theme.txt in your Arduino IDE install folder. I don't know if there's any way to change the font size of Library Manager and Boards Manager though. Obviously it would be better to find a solution to the actual cause of the issue.

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Thanks for the tip about theme.txt!

For anyone else trying to debug this alongside of me, here is something else I think that might come in handy (two IDE's seem to be opening? or a smaller one overriding the first?):

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This issue: Banner re-size issue on Launching IDE · Issue #4215 · arduino/Arduino · GitHub indicates that the behavior shown in your screencap is normal but if you compare your screencap to the screencap shown in the issue the ratio of your smaller splash screen to the larger screen is different.

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Thanks, I updated the ticket, hopefully it is related.

There hasn't been any updates on it for a good month, maybe no one else is seeing what I'm seeing?
I am on a Lenovo yoga pad pro 2, and I did upgrade to windows 10. I'm a little worried its something about my environment. I have re-installed the IDE 2 times but the issue persists. I'll try a different version of the IDE next.

I'm thinking of opening a new ticket, as the one mentioned is only for the banner

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Thanks, I updated the ticket, hopefully it is related.

You're seeing the same banner behavior described in that issue but the cause of it has already been determined and I don't think it's related to your small font size problem.

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I'm thinking of opening a new ticket, as the one mentioned is only for the banner

Before opening a new ticket please do the following:

  • Try the hourly build to see if the problem has already been fixed.
  • Try to determine if the issue is caused solely by something on your system rather than the Arduino IDE.
  • Search the Arduino IDE issue tracker to see if the issue has already been reported. I seem to remember seeing someone else mention this problem somewhere.
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One of the Arduino IDE developers has been working on a possible solution to your issue: https://github.com/arduino/Arduino/pull/4376 this will allow you to scale the IDE up in File > Preferences. He is requesting people to test it. The test builds are here: Arduino IDE on High DPI (take 2) by cmaglie · Pull Request #4376 · arduino/Arduino · GitHub