Not usabele on linux with HiDPI screen

Dear all,

I use RealVNC on Ubuntu Linux 22.04. Most monitors I'm using have 4K resolution and thus scaling is enabled in the display setting (typically set to 200%). With these settings the RealVNC GUI gets unusable, as font get too small to be legible. Please fix this.

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    Hi Simon,

    Thanks for your post. This is something we're looking to improve in a future version. For now, you can try launching VNC Viewer as below, which may help:

    vncviewer -ppmm=8

    Thanks,

    Jack

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  • Any progress with this?  Here's a screenshot of VNCViewer running on my machine (Linux Mint 21.2/Cinnamon).    Launching it with "vncviewer -ppmm=8" does not increase the size of the server name font which remains at about 4 point type on my 13.5" HiDPI laptop screen. 

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  • Indeed "vncviewer -ppmm=8" does not help. Every time I am forced to use RealVNC my eyes hurt. Since HiDPI screens are quite common nowadays, I guess this must be affecting many users. Since it's a show stopper I don't understand why this issue is not being fixed.

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  • I'm suffering from a similar problem. I have 4K screens and display scale in gnome settings set to 125%. This is still using X-server, not Wayland.
    This is what I see with `-ppmm=8` setting (note the menus/settings are rendered at less than 4-point font):

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  • Any progress on this? Quite poor service considering the issue was raised one and a half years ago now!

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