GSplus on HiDPI screens too small

[sgros]

It seems that GSPlus doesn't recognize HiDPI screen on Linux and uses standard value for DPI thus making it unreadable. As a workaround, resizing window is not possible.

[bbellina]

How about adding a double-size view option if not scalable resizing.

[bbellina]

If you launch from the command line you can pass the -resizeable parameter to create a window that can be resized. At least this works on MacOS. For MacOS you:

• launch the Terminal application
• use the cd command to change to the GSplus folder
• type: "open -a GSplus --args -resizeable" (without the quotes)

Alternatively on MacOS you can use Automator to create an application that uses Run Shell Script and has the above open line in it. If that application is put into the same folder as GSplus then clicking on it in Finder will launch GSplus with the resizeable window option on.

[bbellina]

You can make the GSplus window resizeable on Windows by launching GSplus from a BAT script. The steps are:

• go to the directory where you have GSplus installed
• in the directory window menu bar select View and make sure that "File name extensions" is checked
• right-click in the directory window and select New > Text Document from the popup menu
• rename the document something like gsplus-launcher.txt
• double-click the new text file to open it in Notepad for editing
• type: "gsplus.exe -resizeable" (without the quotes) (if you want to turn off the logging make the line "gsplus.exe -resizeable > NUL:" (without the quotes))
• save and close Notepad
• in the directory select your new text file and rename it changing the suffix from txt to bat
• Click "Yes" in the rename warning dialog

To launch GSplus just double-click the your new bat file and its window should be resizeable. If you turned off logging you will only see one line in the log window instead of the complete log. Unfortunately the GSplus author provided no option to turn off the log window entirely.

[sgros]

If you launch from the command line you can pass the -resizeable parameter to create a window that can be resized. At least this works on MacOS. For MacOS you:

* launch the Terminal application

* use the cd command to change to the GSplus folder

* type: "open -a GSplus --args -resizeable" (without the quotes)

Alternatively on MacOS you can use Automator to create an application that uses Run Shell Script and has the above open line in it. If that application is put into the same folder as GSplus then clicking on it in Finder will launch GSplus with the resizeable window option on.

This also works on Linux. Thanks for the solution.

[bmn001]

There's also a "-highdpi" option, but I can't tell a difference with it on or off.

Thank you for the "-resizeable" tip!