topic Re: Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux in Desktop (Linux)

Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux

jackdpeterson — Wed, 09 Nov 2016 17:31:34 GMT

Scaling works great in Windows and MacOS. It's time to bring that same great feel in spotify over to the linux world! Right now, if one has a high-density display (read, high PPI) then the text becomes unreadable in the spotify application.

I happen to be using ubuntu 16.04 Desktop; however, I'm sure other *nix display manager environments are also impacted by this.

Please +1 / upvote this if you view this as a priority for improving your spotify experience (and include some system specs to help those friendly spotify devs with sampling data)!

Re: Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux

pms1969 — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 10:48:28 GMT

I'm running Antergos, and have the same problem. It's workable: barely, but it would be nice to be able to not have to get the magnifying glass out to use the app. Impressed that there is one tho, so thank you.

Re: Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux

hanspeteriv — Tue, 11 Jul 2017 18:34:33 GMT

Please. It almost takes a magnifying glass to read anything. Just look at the size of the mouse pointer and window title bar in relation to the window content in the attached screenshot.

I'm using a macBook Pro 14,1 (13", 2560x1600px) with Arch Linux, Gnome Desktop 3.24.2 and Spotify version 1.0.57.474.gca9c9538.

Re: Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux

hanspeteriv — Tue, 26 Sep 2017 14:15:24 GMT

The issue is only that Spotify doesn't auto-detect the correct scaling factor.

If you pass a scaling factor on the command line it will scale just fine:

$ spotify --force-device-scale-factor=1.5

If you start Spotify using a .desktop file, you can modify it to pass the scaling factor every time like this:

/usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Spotify
GenericName=Music Player
Comment=Spotify streaming music client
Icon=spotify-client
Exec=spotify --force-device-scale-factor=1.5
TryExec=spotify
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Audio;Music;Player;AudioVideo;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/spotify;

This solution is not as nice as auto-detecting the scaling factor but unless you often change displays this should solve your problem.

It would be helpful if

$ spotify --help

would tell people that the --force-device-scale-factor option exists.

Re: Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux

pms1969 — Sat, 21 Oct 2017 17:03:36 GMT

Champion effort. Works a treat.

Re: Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux

richtl — Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:35:12 GMT

Yeah, same thing with Ubuntu 17.04 on my HiDPI display.

Re: Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux

michel-slm — Wed, 22 Nov 2017 05:10:53 GMT

Dell XPS 13 running Fedora, Spotify installed via Flatpak from Flathub. I don't really want to modify the desktop launcher, so I created a shell alias instead:

alias spotify='flatpak run com.spotify.Client --force-device-scale-factor=2'

Re: Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux

punkrockdude — Sat, 03 Mar 2018 19:36:35 GMT

I am having the same problem using the Spotify flatpak from Flathub in KDE Plasma 5.12.

Re: Feature Request - Fix HiDPI scaling in linux

user-removed — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 09:07:01 GMT

Hello,
The Spotify app does not have this function, but you can suggest your idea in this community.
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas

Please mark as solved, thank you!