I’m actually using the MacBook Pro with the lid closed, connected to two identical LG external monitors. In terms of whether Windows is set to scale things, I don’t know the answer to that.
What do you think is the best way to move forward? Is rolling back to the previous version possible/recommended? I had no complaints pre-update.
Are the external displays high DPI?
Rolling back will just mean you’ll be stuck on 3.0 forever, or until someone takes the time to help debug what is going on.
The displays are high DPI, but are set to 1080p
I mean, I feel like I’m wasting company time here. Being ‘stuck’ on a version that works doesn’t sound so bad.
You are not wasting their time, you are helping them fix a problem that might be affecting or will affect others.
There is nothing to stop you from going back. I’m willing to try to help you figure out what is going on, but honestly it kind of sounds like some weird Parallels issue. 1.98 is not a normal dpi scale factor. And if you are running them at 1080p, the dpi scale should be 1.0.
One way to fix this without rolling back would be to create a file named Preferences (Windows).sublime-settings in your ~/SublimeText3/Packages/User dir with the following content:
{
"dpi_scale": 1.0
}
The DPI value might need to be different, but the DPI will be different between Mac and Windows.
Found some more info from another user: https://github.com/SublimeTextIssues/Core/issues/2292.
I am looking into seeing what is going on.
1.0 made it smaller than previously. 1.1 got it back to it’s previous size for me:
"dpi_scale": 1.1,
Windows 7 SP1
Sublime 3143 -> 3170
4k display
OS Scaling 150%
It’s not a Parallels issue, I have the same problem on a native Windows laptop. It may be related to Windows 7 though, which I’m unfortunately stuck with on this machine. The laptop has a high-DPI screen so I have Windows set to 150% text size. However, everything became larger than before when I upgraded to build 3170.
Then I connected a desktop monitor, and I’m pretty sure I saw Sublime Text enlarge itself even further, a couple seconds after I first saw it on the monitor. The monitor has a slightly lower resolution. Its DPI shouldn’t really have affected the size of anything, since Win7 doesn’t let you set it per monitor or change it without logging off.
For me, the dpi_scale setting doesn’t affect anything. I reduced font_size enough to get a comfortable text size. Here you can see the huge UI elements compared to the suitably sized text. I’d say the UI is about 2x as large as it should be. https://i.imgur.com/XqucmsP.png
I would have replied to you yesterday, but apparently there’s a limit on how many posts a new user can make. I’m a moderator on a huge forum, so I get it, but since it’s very common for a user to make an account JUST to ask a question, this is amazingly frustrating not to be able to respond to you until a day later.
Hi I am denied saving my work on my newly installed sublime text … what is wrong ?
This is best asked in another thread since it doesn’t pertain to the discussion in this thread regarding the DPI scale of the window, but are you sure that you have permission to save files to the location you’re trying to save to? For example if you’re on MacOS or Linux you may be trying to save a file to the / folder, which is generally not allowed.
We have confirmed that there is a scaling issue on Windows 7 when the dpi_scale is above 1.0. There should be a new build soon to address the issue.
Hello, thank you fore your reply. After some sleep it came to mee:)
Paal
I have a similar issue on Windows 7. Its running naively and DPI scaling is set to 1.5 at the OS level . Sublime 3 3170 recognizes the 1.5 scaling. Everything is huge, including tabs size, font, and Side Bar.
DPI mode: system
DPI scale: 1.5
startup, version: 3170 windows x64 channel: stable
executable: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/sublime_text.exe
working dir: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3
packages path: /C/Users/me/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Packages
state path: /C/Users/me/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Local
zip path: /C/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/Packages
zip path: /C/Users/me/AppData/Roaming/Sublime Text 3/Installed Packages
This is fixed in build 3171 (a dev build) and I believe the plan is to do a new stable build soon with this and few other fixes.
Related to this, build 3171 officially documents the previously undocumented dpi_scale setting, but it is restricted to Linux and intended for fixing high-DPI auto-detection.
However, all platforms now support a setting called ui_scale which allows changing the size of the entire UI.