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Carlos Gavidia-Calderon
Carlos Gavidia-Calderon

Reputation: 7243

Spyder interface icons very small on high resolution screen in Windows 10

I got a brand-new laptop with a resolution of 3840 x 2160 running Windows 10. After I installed Anaconda + Spyder for python coding, I noticed that the icons are extremely small, as well as the text on the Object Inspector section:

Tiny icons

Is there a way to fix this? It seems closely related to the resolution as it is also happening with Eclipse.

PS: The Eclipse workarounds includes lowering resolution which is far from ideal. I was wondering if this can be fixed maintaining the resolution settings.

Upvotes: 20

Views: 31509

Answers (5)

Emil
Emil

Reputation: 1722

None of the above methods worked for me. However, a simple reboot of my machine did.

Upvotes: 0

Sam
Sam

Reputation: 45

There's an easier solution. Right click the Spyder shortcut - Properties - Compatibility - Change high DPI settings - High DPI scaling override - select it, change it to "System"

Upvotes: 2

Carlos Cordoba
Carlos Cordoba

Reputation: 34186

(Spyder maintainer here) Please use the screen resolution options provided by Spyder to fix this. They are present in

Tools > Preferences > Application > Interface > Screen resolution

for Spyder 5

Tools > Preferences > General > Interface > Screen resolution.

for Spyder 4 and

Tools > Preferences > General > Appearance > Screen resolution

for Spyder 3.

Upvotes: 33

Guillaume
Guillaume

Reputation: 69

Sorry, can't comment on Djerro Neth's answer above, so here goes:

I did his suggestion of adding

[Platforms]
WindowsArguments = dpiawareness=0

and this sort of solved the issue for me. However, the whole UI looked blurry. So I closed spyder, changed dpiawareness to 1

[Platforms]
WindowsArguments = dpiawareness=1

...and, voilà, everything looks just right.

Weird.

Upvotes: 4

JarroVGIT
JarroVGIT

Reputation: 5359

I know this question is old but I ran into the same problem. I fixed it by adding

[Platforms] 
WindowsArguments = dpiawareness=0

to qt.conf in my Anaconda3 installation folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Shared\Anaconda3_64, as it is part of my MS VS installation).

Upvotes: 20

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