topic Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays in Desktop (Linux)

Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

TurkeyBloke — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 03:49:46 GMT

I have a 4k display, and the Linux (at least?) client is practically unusable.

Is HiDPI support on the roadmap?

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

Erkan_Yılmaz — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:43:00 GMT

Hi,

could you explain what "practically unusable" means?

There is a linux beta version around since 2 weeks or so (only 64bit) did you try that yet?

Erkan

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

MattSuda — Sat, 21 Mar 2015 10:55:48 GMT

https://twitter.com/felipernb/status/575669571044114432

There are zoom in/out options, but right now they don't save so you would have to adjust every time you launch

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

TeerDrei — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 20:17:48 GMT

On HIDPI display its barely usable, because everything is so small.

Linux isn't very good yet in this regard, as it could just upscale by default, but doesn't.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

bobbaluba — Tue, 28 Apr 2015 23:26:08 GMT

Where is this zoom in / out option located? I have a hard time reading the menus.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

MikeAbrahams — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 23:26:11 GMT

There is no zoom in / zoom out. I hope they improve high DPI support soon. At this rate we'll be able to zoom individual windows on Wayland first.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

Tangram — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:52:58 GMT

Add --force-device-scale-factor=1.5 (or whatever fits your UI scale) as a command line option.

You could edit /usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop or wherever the .desktop file is located and change the line with Exec= to:

Exec=spotify --force-device-scale-factor=1.5 %U

Problem solved.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

spacepluk — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 18:37:03 GMT

That doesn't work for me.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

spacepluk — Sat, 04 Jul 2015 16:06:23 GMT

It works with the beta 🙂

Thank you!

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

adrianbsuy — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 07:54:06 GMT

It should be automatically. Or at least have a GUI option to set the scaling factor.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

brooksa321 — Mon, 10 Aug 2015 23:15:33 GMT

Unfortunately, It does not follow the scaling factor set in the OS.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

fastfox07 — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:47:55 GMT

Thank you Tangram

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

spacepluk — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 11:58:58 GMT

The workaround doesn't work anymore with the latest betas 😞

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

thomasc6 — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 07:27:18 GMT

I confirm this does not seem to work with the latest beta.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

spacepluk — Sun, 30 Aug 2015 09:14:49 GMT

Nevermind, it does work, I just forgot to restart gnome-shell to reload the .desktop file.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

bburton — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 21:20:11 GMT

This works well for me. As I had to tweet, https://twitter.com/solarce/status/650056804987088897

I found that `--force-device-scale-factor=2.2` was best for me. I have Arch Linux and the Cinnamon Desktop on a 2015 Dell XPS 13" (ships with Ubuntu) with the qHD screen. I edited `/usr/share/applications/spotify.desktop` to make it *stick*

Thanks for figuring this out.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

ecneref — Sun, 15 Nov 2015 17:31:57 GMT

also doesn't work for me on Linuxmint rafaela, Spotify client 0.9.17.1.g9b85d436

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

mobman02 — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:12:16 GMT

I can confirm that this option does not have any effect on Spotify 0.9.17.1, the official version you get here: https://www.spotify.com/fr/download/linux/

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

adrianbsuy — Tue, 12 Jan 2016 10:10:42 GMT

What about non Ubuntu/Debian distros? Should give a direct download.

Re: Linux client barely usable on HiDPI displays

dan-ator — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 22:24:12 GMT

I tried doing this but it wouldn't give me write access to actually save the change to the file. How can I override that?