Brackets: Font size of Brackets on high-DPI Linux/Ubuntu is too small
My brackets 0.40.0-13109 looks so small, I can't even see the menu. if this is a ubuntu itself issue, can you tell me where I can set up. thanks very much.
this image is zoom in a little bit. the actual UI is really small.
kylind
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I have the same problem. Is there a preference to set the font size for the menu or files list? It's alllmost unusable.
evanp
on 12 Jun 2014
@kylind @evanp Are you on high-DPI displays? From the size of the title bar text in the screenshot, it would appear so. Unfortunately, Brackets doesn't support high DPI yet on Linux -- we're waiting on a CEF update to fix this. Hopefully that will happen in the near future (possibly the second release from now, 0.42).
This is already tracked on our feature backlog here: High DPI support on Windows/Linux. So I'll close this if it turns out that's the issue, to avoid tracking the same thing in two places.
peterflynn
on 12 Jun 2014
Yes, my resolution is 2560x1440 (thinkpad x1), I look forward to this issue can be fixed ASAP. I really like bracket. thanks.
kylind
on 13 Jun 2014
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@kylind @evanp Are you on high-DPI displays? From the size of the title bar text in the screenshot, it would appear so. Unfortunately, Brackets doesn't support high DPI yet on Linux -- we're waiting on a CEF update to fix this. Hopefully that will happen in the near future (possibly the second release from now, 0.42).
This is already tracked on our feature backlog here: High DPI support on Windows/Linux. So I'll close this if it turns out that's the issue, to avoid tracking the same thing in two places.
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kylind
on 13 Jun 2014
Just to let you know: I had a similar problem with atom.io. There's a workaround here:
https://github.com/atom/atom/issues/2530
I don't know enough about Brackets config to know if there's a similar trick.
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On Jun 12, 2014, at 16:25, Peter Flynn [email protected] wrote:
@kylind @evanp Are you on high-DPI displays? From the size of the title bar text in the screenshot, it would appear so. Unfortunately, Brackets doesn't support high DPI yet on Linux -- we're waiting on a CEF update to fix this. Hopefully that will happen in the near future (possibly the second release from now, 0.42).
This is already tracked on our feature backlog here: High DPI support on Windows/Linux. So I'll close this if it turns out that's the issue, to avoid tracking the same thing in two places.
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evanp
on 13 Jun 2014
Clarified title (was: "the font size of Brackets in Ubuntu 14.04 is so small")
peterflynn
on 7 Jul 2014
Actually, I think we can close this, as it's already tracked in two other places:
- Automatically adjust sizes on high DPI screens -- https://trello.com/c/WRhZ0xvj/969-high-dpi-support-on-windows-and-linux
- Allow user to rescale app UI manually -- https://github.com/adobe/brackets/issues/6316
peterflynn
on 22 Aug 2014
@evanp You can use a similar hack to tweak the Brackets UI. The instructions here explain how to customize any CSS style in Brackets: https://github.com/adobe/brackets/wiki/Customize-Your-Code-Font#approach-a-write-an-extension
peterflynn
on 22 Aug 2014
@peterflynn that's only fixing the code font, not the font for the menus and code tree.
evanp
on 8 Oct 2014
This is Brackets 1 Ubuntu after fix menu font size
nourddinebakour
on 7 Nov 2014
nourddinebakour
on 7 Nov 2014
Same problem on Windows.
Set the infamous "large fonts" setting and the UI font-sizes are ripped out of proportions with the rest of the system. Applications are supposed to scale up/down from the default, not set their own sizes in physical pixels.
Even browsers do this correctly, and since Brackets is essentially wrapped around a webkit container, fixing this should be as easy as using ems/rems for everything, and drop every instance of pixel-based positioning/sizing everywhere.
And here's a screenshot:
thany
on 29 Dec 2014
@thany Yes, we know. Work is in progress -- see High DPI support on Windows and Linux on Brackets on the backlog and this note in the 1.1 release notes:
Windows High DPI support: To enable, right-click the app icon and select "Disable display scaling on high DPI settings" in the Compatibility tab. (The window controls in the upper right do not rescale yet, however).
peterflynn
on 3 Jan 2015
The thing on the Compatibility tab changes nothing in my case... I think what it's _supposed_ to do is act as if my screen is back at 96dpi. So essentially disabling all scaling. But Brackets isn't scaling to begin with, so I'm not awfully surprized as to why this option changes nothing.
Btw, I'm still at 1.0 because of a regression bug that's breaking Brackets usage for me.
thany
on 5 Jan 2015
@thany Right, 1.0 does not have this feature. You should only expect to see it working (with the Compatibility tab change) in 1.1 -- hence that message being in the release notes for 1.1 :-)
peterflynn
on 5 Jan 2015
Would someone be kind enough to provide more explicit instructions on how to increase the scale of the UI elements?
@nourddinebakour Looks like you've made some progress on this front. Care to share your code/package?
1beb
on 13 May 2015
Figured it out, and pushed extension for those rare Surface Pro 3 users who've installed Linux.. like myself. https://github.com/1beb/ui-too-small bumps everything to 20px;
1beb
on 13 May 2015
thanks for your plugin man, i changed it to 18px and now i have a usable UI. Let me point something out. You don't need a surface pro or something fancy like that to have a small font issue in linux. There are plenty of, just to mention my case, 27"@2560x1440 displays around.
This is my UI with 18px fonts , which looks good now, but look at the small setting and split screen icons, which aren't resized by changing the font size, those are very small .
matrs
on 18 May 2015
This need to be fixed...
This is how it looks for me on a 4k laptop screen...
mariogrip
on 10 Sep 2015
I dont think our linux cef version supports hidpi.
@nethip could fill in more details about cef 2171
abose
on 10 Sep 2015
@mariogrip Yes @abose is right. We are not HiDPI aware on Linux yet as we are still running the older version of CEF, which is not HiDPI aware(along with the old code in our appshell which again is not high DPI aware on Linux). We ran into serious problems trying to update CEF inside Brackets. Unfortunately, we do not have bandwidth to take up the CEF upgradation on Linux. We appreciate any help we could get in this area. Thanks!
nethip
on 10 Sep 2015
You'd think it'd be as simple as to stop declaring everything in pixels, and start using rems. I've seen a boatload of pixel declarations for font-sizes and other dimensions in brackets' css files, but then again if CEF states that 1rem is always equal to 16px regardless of pixel density, rems won't help either...
thany
on 10 Sep 2015
Brackets is hidpi aware on windows and mac systems since release 1.2, largely thanks to CEF support for hidpi and our use of svg assets. As it works pretty well on hidpi mac/win, the only issue left in linux would be to bring ceflatest shell to linux. So things should work well with just that :+1:
abose
on 10 Sep 2015
Any update on this? Xubuntu user. Direly needed.
99Percent
on 6 Jan 2016
File -> Extention Manager -> search for "UI too small"
mug896
on 10 Feb 2016
@mug896, u r the savior
horatiohe
on 25 Apr 2016
@mug896 is indeed the savior. Praise him!
AptFox
on 13 May 2016
@mug896 I owe you a coffee!
JuliaKoe
on 25 Aug 2016
@mug896 Thanks
ShanikaEdiriweera
on 3 Sep 2016
@mug896 It worked but the UI is not much responsive. Gets stuck all the time
ShanikaEdiriweera
on 3 Sep 2016
File -> Extension Manager. Search for HiDPI and install "Brackets HiDPI Support". Everything works fine, except one can't move the cursor in the editor with a mouse click. issue https://github.com/mgspross/brackets-hidpi-support/issues/1
adimanav
on 13 Sep 2016
@adimanav Since this is marked as Linux only, can you try with brackets-electron? https://github.com/zaggino/brackets-electron/releases
zaggino
on 13 Sep 2016
@zaggino brackets-electron works fine! thanks!
adimanav
on 13 Sep 2016
remove family font and change size of font freely
Kazhunter
on 3 Oct 2016
Still unusable for me on a linux 4K screen. brackets-electron 1.10.2 works much better out of the box, apart from the fact that it seems to start up a bit slower.
Globegitter
on 10 May 2017
I like Brackets but am unable to use it with my hi-dpi display.
Release 1.11 build 1.11.0-17524 (release 86b5e2d4e)
build timestamp: Wed Sep 20 2017 10:21:22 GMT+0000
OS: Elementary OS 0.4.1 Loki STABLE
HARDWARE : Dell Inspiron 13-5378
Djcoper
on 12 Oct 2017
Still having font rendering issues on a thinkpad x250.
Resolution: 1920x1080 at 12.5"
Ubuntu 18.04
CodePint
on 1 Feb 2020
You might want to consider switching to VS Code, because Adobe just simply doesn't have the ability to fix problems reported by its users. This even goes for their expensive commercial software, so what'd you expect for a free program that's basically been dying for some 2 or 3 years?
On top of that, Adobe couldn't care less about Linux, which is again and again proven by all of their other (commercial) software that runs on everything, except Linux.
thany
on 2 Feb 2020
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File -> Extention Manager -> search for "UI too small"