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Eclipse keeps running in 125% scaling when my desktop is set at 100% [message #1780032]

Tue, 16 January 2018 16:00

Fabrice Reynaud

Messages: 4
Registered: January 2018

Junior Member

I'm using Eclipse Oxygen with Java 9 and Windows 10.

I use a laptop with 2 external monitors.

When I started working with eclipse it was working just fine, because I was always working on my external screens.

One time I opened it on my laptop and it auto scaled to 125%, which is fine since my Windows 10 screen configuration is set to scale to 125% when I'm on my laptop.

But now, even when I'm on my external screens and my desktop is set to 100%, eclipse still runs in 125%, which is impossible to work with.

I tried adding these lines to eclipse.ini, but it didn't work:
-Dswt.enable.autoScale=false
-Dswt.autoScale=false

Any idea how to force eclipse to use 100% DPI and not scale up to 125% anymore?

Thanks in advance!

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Re: Eclipse keeps running in 125% scaling when my desktop is set at 100% [message #1780045 is a reply to message #1780032]

Tue, 16 January 2018 19:07

Nitin Dahyabhai

Messages: 4435
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Have you logged out and logged back in after connecting to an external screen? Some applications will not update their scaling on the fly.

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Nitin Dahyabhai
Eclipse Web Tools Platform

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Re: Eclipse keeps running in 125% scaling when my desktop is set at 100% [message #1780075 is a reply to message #1780045]

Wed, 17 January 2018 08:04

Fabrice Reynaud

Messages: 4
Registered: January 2018

Junior Member

Well yes, logging off and on is a solution to this problem.

But what I don't understand is most of the time, I don't even launch eclipse until I'm on my external screens, and it still start at 125%.

I can understand that eclipse doesn't scale "on the fly", but starting it while on an external screen with the desktop setting set to 100% shouldn't launch it at 125% right?

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Re: Eclipse keeps running in 125% scaling when my desktop is set at 100% [message #1780079 is a reply to message #1780075]

Wed, 17 January 2018 08:33

Tauno Voipio

Messages: 742
Registered: August 2014

Senior Member

It does not care of Eclipse, as the main culprit is Windows.

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Tauno Voipio

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Re: Eclipse keeps running in 125% scaling when my desktop is set at 100% [message #1780080 is a reply to message #1780079]

Wed, 17 January 2018 08:39

Fabrice Reynaud

Messages: 4
Registered: January 2018

Junior Member

Well as much as I would like to put the blame on Windows, eclipse is the only application that seems to behave this way.

I mean when this behavior happens, all the other applications I launch are launched at 100%, only eclipse keeps launching at 125%.

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