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HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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Hello,
I'm sorry in advance if this issue was covered before, but I was not able to find it.

I have a 4K display.
I have Windows 10 20H2.
I have Windows scaling set to 150%.

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And XnView MP has a different scalling than the one I had set. Fonts looks bigger than my setup of 150%.

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Any ideas how to fix it?
Thanks!
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Re: HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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please start XnView with -noDpiScaling argument
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Re: HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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Looks better, thanks.
Additional question, can I control the amount of scaling? So the icons don't look that small.
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you can set environment var QT_SCALE_FACTOR
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Can it be placed somewhere at the %appdata%\XnViewMP\xnview.ini or in the command line target?

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no you need to add a environment variable
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Re: HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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Thank you for a variable!
My case is exactly the same. Latest Win10x64, 150% scaling.
XnViewMP 0.96.5 - all good:
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But 0.97, 0.97.1:
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The DPI compatibility settings kept the font size just as huge.
Interestingly, the variable had to be set to 0.75 for the correct size.
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Re: HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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The problem I'm having by changing the environment variable QT_SCALE_FACTOR, is also affecting other software that I use. For example https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/.

Any other idea on how to re-scale XnView?

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Re: HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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pepemosca wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:55 am The problem I'm having by changing the environment variable QT_SCALE_FACTOR, is also affecting other software that I use. For example https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/.
Hmm, I just noticed that my GoldenDict is skewed because of this variable. So I don't even know which of the two to choose : )

UPD The only working solution is to roll back to the old version.
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Re: HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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chaotic.sys wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 11:54 am
pepemosca wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 8:55 am The problem I'm having by changing the environment variable QT_SCALE_FACTOR, is also affecting other software that I use. For example https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/.
Hmm, I just noticed that my GoldenDict is skewed because of this variable. So I don't even know which of the two to choose : )

UPD The only working solution is to roll back to the old version.
you can use -noDpiScaling argument to start XnView
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Re: HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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xnview wrote: Wed Nov 25, 2020 3:56 pm you can use -noDpiScaling argument to start XnView
I tried it, it works : ) I usually launch XnView from Explorer by clicking on thumbnails. Not sure how to apply the argument in this case. Through the bat file - somehow not very good : )
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Re: HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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Having same problem. XnViewMP starts starts with 200% scaling, instead of 150%.
-noDpiScaling switching scaling off entirely, making everything too small.

Can it be just reverted to previous scaling approach? It was working.
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regs wrote: Sat Jan 09, 2021 3:08 am Having same problem. XnViewMP starts starts with 200% scaling, instead of 150%.
-noDpiScaling switching scaling off entirely, making everything too small.

Can it be just reverted to previous scaling approach? It was working.
which font scaling value do you have in windows?
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Re: HiDPI font's are not following the Windows scaling

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150%

Reverted to 0.96.5 for the time being. That one is fine.
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regs wrote: Sun Jan 24, 2021 8:18 pm 150%

Reverted to 0.96.5 for the time being. That one is fine.
0.80.1 fix this issue
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