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Bug 255925

Summary: HiDPI not supported
Product: platform Reporter: nmaggioni
Component: Window SystemAssignee: Stanislav Aubrecht <saubrecht>
Status: NEW ---    
Severity: normal CC: asbachb, nmaggioni
Priority: P3    
Version: 8.0.2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Issue Type: DEFECT Exception Reporter:
Attachments: UI Sample.

Description nmaggioni 2015-10-14 13:53:14 UTC
Created attachment 156713 [details]
UI Sample.

On my Dell XPS 13 (early 2015 model) with a 4K screen (HiDPI/Retina), the UI isn't correctly rendered. Everything is scaled down to half of the right dimensions.
Comment 1 Jiri Kovalsky 2015-10-15 15:27:47 UTC
Reassigned for further evaluation. What JDK do you use?
Comment 2 nmaggioni 2015-10-15 15:37:54 UTC
I'm using Oracle's JDK 8.
Comment 3 aede 2016-01-15 09:58:21 UTC
Same deal on my machine (Asus):
Display: 3840x2160
OS: ubuntu 15.10 (64-bit)
Netbeans info:
  Product Version: NetBeans IDE 8.1 (Build 201510222201)
  Java: 1.8.0_66; Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM 25.66-b17
  Runtime: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment 1.8.0_66-b17
  System: Linux version 4.2.0-23-generic running on amd64; UTF-8; en_US (nb)

I am aware of the fact that I'm not using openjdk, but might this be related:
http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/263
Are hidpi, java and linux a bad match?


Appearantly not only Linux is suffering from the same issue, see also https://netbeans.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=252452