I recently migrated to Linux mint from windows. Downloaded Scilab and installed it without problem but when I open it, the font and icon scaling is wrong, as you can see in the snapshot. I tried to increase the font under preferences but that only works for the scinotes and console code. I also tried to change my display scale settings but that didn’t work too. I found a similar post where the solution was to replace a file named “scirenderer.jar“ inside the installation directory. I tried it but it didn’t work. Is this problem specific to my OS or has someone else run into this? Thanks in advance!
Hello,
What kind of display do you have ? Is it of HIDPI type (i.e. 3 840×2 160 or more) ?
S.
I have a display with 1920x1080 (16:9) resolution. I guess this makes it HiDPI?
No this is classical HD, so the scaling problem is not due to the display hardware, but rather due to the configuration of your Window manager, BTW which one does use Linux Mint ? Xfce, Gnome, or else ?
S.
I have this exact same issue on a 2560 x 1600 (16:20) screen, so 2K QHD resolution, with a regular Fedora Workstation 43 (gnome desktop) distro using the flatpak package from flathub.
Using 200% scaling in gnome’s display settings, there appears this scaling mismatch. The bigger texts look as they should, but the rest of the interface is way too small.
[The image looks sort of like OP’s, but I can only embed one image. I have both images in a comment I sent in an issue from Scilab’s gitlab repo]
When setting the env GDK_scale=2, the texts that used to look good are now too big, and the rest looks as it should.
How can I proceed to fix this text scaling mismatch? I tried v2023.0 and v2026.0, both experimenting the same issue.
I commented this here as well Scilab GUI is difficult to work with on HiDPI displays (#13811) · Issues · scilab / scilab · GitLab
I found a good solution, see Scilab GUI is difficult to work with on HiDPI displays (#13811) · Issues · scilab / scilab · GitLab