If you run Ghidra on a high DPI screen, you will probably find the GUI to be scaled down so small to be almost of no use.
There is a setting that you can adjust to scale the Ghidra GUI:
in $GHIDRA_ROOT/support is a file named launch.properties. In this launch.properties file is the following configuration key:
VMARGS_LINUX=-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=1
Change this line to:
VMARGS_LINUX=-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2
Then launch ghidra and you should be good to go!
awesome, just what I needed!
I've been running ghidra on my macbook pro with Ubuntu for months and it was killing me. Thanks a lot!
thanks
Thanks, man. I needed this.
awsome ,it worked wonders thankss!!
If we can do this with a config file parameter, it should be something the program can work out on the fly and just "fix". Anyway, great call. Works on W11. Thanks!!
All this does for me is just make the window 2x larger without making it any clearer - in fact, it's still scaling that 2x window. I have not found a single other person report this nor have I found a way to make GNOME not scale certain Xwayland windows, because I'm sure that Xwayland or GNOME is doing it.
VMARGS_LINUX=-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=1 is too small
VMARGS_LINUX=-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2 is too big
difficult to adjust with no decimal value
Any way to have fractional scaling?
necroposting, but fractional scaling is now working as of Ghidra version 11.2.1 at least
In wayland it is very blurry at 125%, using gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer', 'xwayland-native-scaling']" seems to work in scaling the text properly at highdpi but all icons and UI is very small, is there any way to have fractional scaling and non blurryness for highDPI screens?
Any way to have fractional scaling?
necroposting, but fractional scaling is now working as of Ghidra version 11.2.1 at least
did you manage to get this fractional scaling without it being blurry?
necroposting, but fractional scaling is now working as of Ghidra version 11.2.1 at least
did you manage to get this fractional scaling without it being blurry?
I am using VMARGS_LINUX=-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=1.25 on Fedora 41, GNOME 47, my monitor is 1360x768, the text has a good anti-aliasing and a reasonable readability in general considering the limits of both my monitor and the user interface of Ghidra so it doesn't seem blurry to me, however icons still remain limited by their low bitmap resolution and the UI/UX of Ghidra so they don't seem to scale up at all
I'm using Ghidra 11.3, my system is Fedora 41 KDE Plasma 6.3.
Why fractional scaling is not working in my system?
I try 1.1, 1.25, 1.5, and 1.9 it not scaling
Scale to 2 is too big for me
Please help..
I'm using Ghidra 11.3, my system is Fedora 41 KDE Plasma 6.3. Why fractional scaling is not working in my system? I try 1.1, 1.25, 1.5, and 1.9 it not scaling Scale to 2 is too big for me Please help..
I did not test myself but have you tried switching from Wayland to X11, or from X11 to Wayland and see if changes anything? once again, I don't have KDE so I have not tested anything, it's nothing more but a guess
I think Fedora 41 abandoned x11, it's not worthed installing x11 in fedora only for testing it. i afraid there is will be broken package
thanks !
VMARGS_LINUX=-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=1.5
did the trick for me, thanks
VMARGS_LINUX=-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=1.5did the trick for me, thanks
No clue what changed, but 1.5 was working for me and now I see the tons of posts saying fractional scaling doesn't work. Now I'm in the same boat, it worked originally and now it only works at 1.0 or 2.0, 1.5 no longer does anything and just gets truncated to 1 it seems.
How do I make the change on a Ubuntu system with a snap ghidra? The /snap/ filesystem is read-only.
For Windows,
VMARGS_WINDOWS=-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2.It'll look really big when you have 150% scaling enabled but it's better than being really small 😄 !