[9] Review request for 8137050: Support Linux settings for HiDPI scaling

[Sergey Bylokhov]

Hi Jim.
Do you plan to implement the new HiDPI API for the Robot class?

On 13.05.16 0:43, Jim Graham wrote:
> bug: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8137050
> webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~flar/JDK-8137050/webrev-00/
>
> The order of taking scaling parameters in order of higher to lower
> priority is:
> - -Dglass.gtk.uiScale system property
> - Same property in the environment
> - GDK_SCALE in the environment (optional in Gnome)
> - g_settings (the typical way to set scaling...)
>
> As noted in the bug report, I'll delete the old lines in the Screen
> constructor in glass_screen.cpp that are currently commented out if
> there are no other changes noted in the review...
>
> I was able to run dev-build-full.sh and got the same errors as I did
> without the fix.
>
> I ran SwingNode toys and none of them scaled despite the fact that I was
> running on jdk9 and AWT was supposed to support scaling, but they worked
> fine in that I could manipulate all of the Swing controls.
>
>             ...jim


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Best regards, Sergey.