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It is still unusable with HiDPI displays. The bug is raised for 5 years, and as Pharo renders everything from scratch, it makes the UI pixelated.

OK, I will wait a few more years. I love Smalltalk, but I don't think I am qualified to fix this myself, unfortunately.

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Not true, I work on a 4K screen and it is clean. Win10 latest. Windows VM, some settings to tweak in Pharo but it works.

Upcoming is Bloc, which uses Mozilla2D as rendering engine and is vector based.

Next Pharo UI will use it.

See https://github.com/pharo-graphics/Bloc

I just installed it on my WQHD ThinkPad running at 225% scaling and everything is blurry. It's definitely not running as a high-DPI-aware app. Are you saying there are some settings I can tweak to fix it? That would be great.

The TrackPoint response is all wrong too, but one step at a time... :-)

Looks like this in Win10:

https://imgur.com/a/X9PcgZe

Should be better anyway, but it is usable.

I already got it better but the VM has changed since and the rendering is not as good (but is faster for some reason).

Vs IntelliJ, it sucks a tad.

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