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‌Linux High-DPI

While SynthEyes itself supports high-DPI mode in Linux, so far it doesn’t have any integration into Linux itself to be able to determine the effective DPI of various monitors, or be able to scale titlebars etc accordingly.

We’re not sure if that’s because this support doesn’t exist, isn’t standardized, merely hard to find, or supported only on other than our nominal GTK2/CentOS 7 setup. Hopefully that situation will improve in the future.

In the meantime, you can use the High DPI Mode control in the Appearance section of SynthEyes’s preferences to lock SynthEyes into standard-DPI or high-DPI mode for all its windows. This will work out almost perfectly if all of your monitors are high-DPI (except for the title bar). Restarting SynthEyes is necessary after changing the mode.

There’s also an issue in determining the usable portion of the monitor, ie avoiding toolbars, docks, etc, which is handled on the Linux version with an environment variable that sets the margins for all monitors. SynthEyes will tell you the right value for this variable if you start SynthEyes unmaximized, then maximize the SynthEyes window.

See the Linux installation notes.

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