VSCode is not per monitor DPI aware

[ivanz]

• VSCode Version: 1.0.0
• OS Version: Windows 10

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Connect second monitor and adjust DPI such as the second monitor has different DPI than the main one
2. Drag Vscode window to the second monitor - UI becomes all blurry.

Possibly related to #1896 and also this upstream Chromium issue: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=426656

[renomarcello]

Also happens on VSCode Version: 1.1.0-insider; OS: Windows 10 14332

[bpasero]

@ivanz @Chococat could you try our latest insider release to see if this issue still reproduces?
You can give our preview releases a try from: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

[ivanz]

@bpasero Not as far as I can tell. You can easily test this without multiple monitors on Windows by simply changing the size of text etc. As far as I can tell the work is still in progress on the Chromium side here and is currently available in their dev and canary builds only.

[bpasero]

Ok but good to know they plan for it because that means we will eventually also benefit.

[bpasero]

@ivanz we recently updated Chrome again to 53 in our insider builds, maybe this improved?
You can give our preview releases a try from: http://code.visualstudio.com/Download#insiders

[ivanz]

@bpasero No improvement with 53. I believe that the proper DPI support may land in 55 or later. Chrome Beta (which is 55) has it enabled by default, but no idea what that means for chromium stable.

[bpasero]

Got it, thanks 👍

[Ciantic]

This is bothering, I'm running Google Chrome 54, and it works perfectly but not the Electron which is running with Chromium 53. I opened issue to Electron electron/electron#8062

P.S. I have own Electron app too, which is now running with 1.4.8 and it suffers the same problem. The 1.4.x is not going to solve this.

[retrixe]

Electron 1.5 fixes this by updating to Chrome 54.