cygwin install blurry on high dpi Windows 10

Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan sharuzzaman@gmail.com
Mon Jun 1 08:50:35 GMT 2020


Hi Jon,

I tested the installer that you have provided, and the output is very sharp
and clear.

The installer functionality also works as expected.

I hope this version can be made into the official version.

Thank you.

On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 12:05 AM Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
wrote:

> On 27/05/2020 12:41, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan via Cygwin wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My office laptop is Windows 10 with a high DPI display.
> >
> > I found that the installer is blurry, especially inside the window. The
> > title of the window is clear.
> >
> > Is this something that has been reported before? If nobody has reported
> it,
> > then I would like to report the issue here.
>
> Thanks for reporting this issue.
>
> This is Windows doing "dpi virtualization" (it reports 96 dpi to the
> app, and then upscales what it draws to the actual dpi)
>
> Since we (now) use standard UI elements for everything in setup, it
> should 'just' be a case of marking setup as being able to handle being
> told the real dpi.
>
> I built an updated setup with that change:
>
> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.904-4-gaa071e.x86_64.exe
> https://cygwin.com/setup/setup-2.904-4-gaa071e.x86.exe
>
> Perhaps you could try that and see if it improves things for you?
>


-- 
Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan


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