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Heterogeneous DPI support on Linux

See original GitHub issue

VSCode Version: Code 1.19.1 (0759f77bb8d86658bc935a10a64f6182c5a1eeba, 2017-12-19T09:41:01.414Z)
OS Version: Linux x64 4.14.11-300.fc27.x86_64

Steps to Reproduce:

A Wayland desktop session on a multi-display setup with heterogeneous DPI scaling. Mine is a HiDPI laptop display scaled at 200% and an external monitor using 100% scaling, resulting in xwayland scaled at 100% on all displays. gnome-shell is the compositor.
Launch Visual Studio Code.
Move the IDE window between the displays.

Like any other X11 application, Visual Studio Code cannot adapt to heterogeneous scaling. Wayland support, discussed in #1739, is needed to enable this. I feel that opening a new issue is justified by the problem described, which was not mentioned by the commenters on that issue.

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

Issue Analytics

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:44
Comments:26 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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hedgepigdanielcommented, Nov 11, 2019

I would say that the chromium issue is solved enough to support this, at least for testing purposes.

The current stable chromium release only requires the ozone/wayland build flags to be compiled for ozone/wayland (no downstream patches). It works, and correctly scales the window to match the DPI of the display it’s rendered on.

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schmodcommented, Oct 4, 2020

It looks like the native Wayland support in Chromium/Electron is just about ready, so hopefully VSCode will soon be able to take advantage of that…

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