HiDPI in IntelliJ 13.1, how to use it? what is it good for?

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jhegedus picture jhegedus · Mar 2, 2014 · Viewed 14.7k times · Source

I've just seen that there is HiDPI support for Windows in IDEA 13.1 :

Support Windows/Linux HiDPI devices via -Dis.hidpi=true

What does this mean exactly ? How can I enable it ? Where should I set this flag ?

I have a high resolution monitor and having higher DPI fonts would be nice, will this setting help with that ? If yes, how can I take advantage of that ?

Answer

sweepy84 picture sweepy84 · Aug 13, 2014

I've discovered that using checking "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" in compatibility tab of the Intellij executable or shortcut does the job! I had to reinstall from scratch before it worked.

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