Resize Ghidra GUI for High DPI screens

resize-ghidra-gui.md

Resize Ghidra for High DPI screens

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!

Thanks for this. Exactly what I needed.

Any way to have fractional scaling?

Thanks, rly needed this cause i have a 4k monitor

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 😄 !

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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.