Bug 6079 - rudimentary (only UI) high dpi support on macOS
Summary: rudimentary (only UI) high dpi support on macOS
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: ThinLinc
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Client platforms (show other bugs)
Version: 1.3.1
Hardware: Mac Unknown
: P2 Normal
Target Milestone: 4.8.0
Assignee: Peter Åstrand
URL:
Keywords: relnotes, samuel_tester, upstream
Depends on: 6153
Blocks: 5273 6980
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Reported: 2016-10-31 10:45 CET by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2017-05-22 15:56 CEST (History)
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Description Pierre Ossman cendio 2016-10-31 10:45:21 CET 
Apparently macOS has a flag that seems to magically make most of ThinLinc be high DPI without any noticeable side effects. This flag was recently merged into  TigerVNC:

https://github.com/TigerVNC/tigervnc/pull/371

I tried adding it to tlclient as well and I could not see any issues.

It doesn't fix everything, but close. And given the low effort I'd say this is worthwhile to fix.
Comment 5 Peter Åstrand cendio 2017-02-08 16:09:56 CET 
The flag has been added to both tlclient and vncviewer now. Unfortunately, I cannot find a OS X system with a high DPI screen to test with, so I'm leaving that to the tester.

Time report on bug 6153.
Comment 6 Peter Åstrand cendio 2017-02-08 16:17:57 CET 
(In reply to comment #5)
> The flag has been added to both tlclient and vncviewer now. Unfortunately, I
> cannot find a OS X system with a high DPI screen to test with, so I'm leaving
> that to the tester.

Actually, I was able to test using the method described here:


https://www.tekrevue.com/tip/hidpi-mode-os-x/
Comment 7 Samuel Mannehed cendio 2017-02-10 13:46:22 CET 
The client interface looks great! Tested with build 5369 on Mac OS 10.12.
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