TigerVNC/tigervnc

"High Resolution" mode on macOS

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#878 opened on Oct 10, 2019

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Description

Please change to True in the Mac info.plist:

	<key>NSHighResolutionCapable</key>
	<string>true</string>

so that it isn't forced to "Open in low resolution" and the interface looks much better on modern high DPI Macs.

UI scaling already seems to be correct at high dpi, so this should be the only change needed. Please see attached screenshots.

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Research direction
Locate the Info.plist file in the TigerVNC source tree, change NSHighResolutionCapable to true, rebuild the app, and verify the fix on a Retina display.
Tech stack
ccpp
Domain
desktop
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Feature
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1
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Under 1 hour
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Clear
Prerequisites
macOSXcode command line tools
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85