Kyle Murphy

Kyle Murphy

Data Analyst/Researcher


Spyder GUI scaling

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Experiencing weird scaling issues with Spyder?

I recently got a new laptop with a very nice screen… the downside, Spyder didn’t render very nicely on it. Luckily there was a simple fix identified by Emmanuel Contreras (see this stackoverflow post too).

  1. Locate your qt.conf file.
  2. Modify the qt.conf file by adding or modifying the line:
      [Platforms]
  WindowsArguments = dpiawareness=0
  3. Restart Spyder

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