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Completely distorted GUI on Windows 10

Open mark-orion opened this issue 4 years ago • 13 comments

I am running Windows 10 as a Virtualbox guest. However all other programs work fine, only Helm offers this kind of very distorted GUI:

Screenshot from 2020-06-12 18-26-40

mark-orion avatar Jun 12 '20 17:06 mark-orion

I can confirm that this is also the case for me on a native install of Windows 10, update 1909.

brunobeltran avatar Sep 15 '20 17:09 brunobeltran

This has to do with DPI awareness if you change the windows Display preferences Scale and Layout to 100% it resolves this issue. I wonder what the best way to fix this is??

DavidsonAudioMulti avatar Sep 26 '20 17:09 DavidsonAudioMulti

@DavidsonAudioMulti I can confirm that setting Scale to 100% fixes the UI. Unfortunately not viable for me. I might get a second monitor that would have scaling disabled. For those that don't know where to change that : View display settings in Windows 10

jtommi avatar Dec 05 '20 15:12 jtommi

Yeah, you change your scaling to 100%, unfortunately that's not a fix to this, especially for people who can't see tiny text on the screen, and it seems the developers will never fix it.

HelgenX avatar Jan 24 '22 01:01 HelgenX

I had this problem on windows 10 but it seems to be working at 110% scaling on windows 11 for me, just a heads up to anyone else interested

zmweske avatar Jul 12 '22 02:07 zmweske

Confirmed this is a scaling issue. Having three 4k screens sucks when it comes to using this plugin lol. Setting scaling back to 100% works

CRTX avatar Jul 18 '22 14:07 CRTX

I have the same issue when the scaling setting is something else than 100% I guess. Only when used as a plugin, this doesn't happen if you open the application directly.

karl-police avatar Sep 19 '22 14:09 karl-police