Spyder looks terrible on a very high resolution screen

Description of your problem

Display scaling is on, but my text on the tabs and the like are really tiny? I also cannot drop the reso as it causes issues on this laptop, my laptop is new but is super buggy and I really don’t have time to exchange it and what not. What steps will reproduce the problem?

Leaving the com at original reso

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

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Versions and main components

Spyder Version: 3.1.2
Python Version: 2.7
Qt Version: 5.6.2
PyQt Version: 5.6
Operating system: Windows 10

Dependencies

Please go to the menu entry Help > Optional Dependencies (or Help > Dependencies), press the button Copy to clipboard and paste the contents below: jedi >=0.8.1 : 0.9.0 (OK) matplotlib >=1.0 : 2.0.0 (OK) nbconvert >=4.0 : 4.2.0 (OK) numpy >=1.7 : 1.11.3 (OK) pandas >=0.13.1 : 0.19.2 (OK) pep8 >=0.6 : 1.7.0 (OK) pyflakes >=0.5.0 : 1.5.0 (OK) pygments >=2.0 : 2.1.3 (OK) pylint >=0.25 : 1.6.4 (OK) qtconsole >=4.2.0: 4.2.1 (OK) rope >=0.9.4 : 0.9.4 (OK) sphinx >=0.6.6 : 1.5.1 (OK) sympy >=0.7.3 : 1.0 (OK)

I really don’t know my way around spyder and I’m a student, so a super idiot proof guide would really help, thanks! I also don’t know how to mess around with it much; nor can I ><

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Created 6 years ago
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csbracecommented, Jan 30, 2020

I also ran into this issue, but was able to fix it by following the advice of this person on Stack Overflow: https://stackoverflow.com/a/48141311/11627783 Would love it if this could be somehow integrated into Spyder! Very annoying.

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juejungcommented, Apr 5, 2017

I get the following results:

Turn OFF high dpi scaling in spyder preferences menu (so UNtick the tickmark item) and start with QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2.5 spyder This is the best solution and solves my problems as it scales up everything nicely (buttons plus fonts)

Turn ON high dpi scaling in spyder preferences menu (so tick the tickmark item) and start with QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2.5 spyder This increases the size of the button bar only but doesn’t scale the font in the menu or window borders

Turn OFF high dpi scaling in spyder preferences menu (so Untick the tickmark item) and start with QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 spyder Now everything is tiny - spyder is not using any of the up-scaling from the Unity environment. This is the default setting if a new user starts Spyder for the first time with a hi dpi screen.

Turn ON high dpi scaling in spyder preferences menu (so tick the tickmark item) and start with QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1 spyder This increases the size of the button bar only (as before) but doesn’t scale the font in the menu or window borders

So I think if you add QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2.5 to the preference menu users could scale everything according to what they need. The current hidpi adjustment only scales the buttons, and is therefore less helpful in my case.