I was searching for a solution, thinking, "There has to be a way!" I also tried tweaking font sizes in Eclipse and JDeveloper, but all of my attempts made the problem worse by messing up the overall visual layouts of the IDEs. When I first encountered this situation, I tried tweaking Windows' font size and display resolution, but much with despair. You might want to wear powerful reading glasses while coding in these IDEs!Įclipse and JDeveloper appear like in the below screenshots on high-resolution screens: The most popular IDEs, like Eclipse and JDeveloper, don't understand high DPI screens. In Windows, individual programs should handle high DPIs by themselves. Note that this might not be a problem in Macs because MacOS natively offers support scaling of your programs so that they look better regardless of high display resolutions. These problems make high resolution displays unfriendly for development. Icons, fonts, control buttons, toggles, and other UI elements don't scale well and look so tiny, straining your eyes and impacting productivity. Although they are very good for watching high-quality movies or your favorite NFL games, developers may find it hard to work on IDEs that don't support high DPI screens. Screen resolutions on PCs are getting sharp and reaching up to 4K resolution.