eclipse - very small fonts and icons on 4k screens

Question

I'm using CFeclipse on Windows 10 OS.

With the adaptation of new 4k resolution laptops. Eclipse displays small icons and fonts. Its also reported as a bug in https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=451693.

Answer 1

The mentioned bug has been fixed, Eclipse automatically scales images on high-DPI monitors on Windows since Eclipse Neon (4.6). So, make sure your Eclipse IDE is up to date.

If upgrading does not fix your issue, in eclipse.ini add the following line below the line -vmargs (see Tweaking SWT's auto-scaling):

-Dswt.autoScale=200

(In contrast to the compatibility mode of Windows, this is the way to get the double-resolution icons.)