HiDPI doesn't appear to be handled by Cygwin/X11
Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:39:55 +0100
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Hi all, Apologies if this has already been reported, but I couldn't find anything about this exact issue. I've recently found that HiDPI screens with scaling don't appear to be handled well by Cygwin/X11 - windows render very small in this configuration. By contrast, if I use the VcxSrv server with the same Cygwin application it displays at the size you'd expect. I'd be happy to send screenshots or logs, or anything else I can send to help figure out why this is happening. I don't know much about X, other than that it's hard to maintain, so I appreciate this may not be an easy problem to fix. Best, Hamish -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple