Too small interface in hidpi screen

[Miguel]

When using terminator in a hidpi screen the menu and preferences are too small to read.

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

You don't mention what version of Terminator. I have a laptop with HiDPI and Terminator 1.91 (the latest gtk3 version) is fully HiDPI compatible. It even does the right thing when I hot plug and switch to a LoDPI external monitor.

So I suspect you are using 1.0 which is the old unmaintained gtk2 version. I'm pretty sure gtk2 cannot handle HiDPI.

[Miguel (dortamiguel)]

I'm was using 1.91

I had to export this variables to gtk use the dpi of my screen

export GDK_SCALE=2
export GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.9

So now looks great

[Stephen Boddy (stephen-j-boddy)]

Just for my clarity/info, which desktop are you running under? At least under Unity (Ubuntu) it switches automatically as I swap between Hi and Lo DPI. Do you have this problem with other gtk3 based applications, or just Terminator?

[Miguel (dortamiguel)]

I'm using archlinux with i3, and this happened with all gtk3 applications.