Winbox in Wine RetinaMode=y

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I just upgraded to Wine 2.0. It has HiDPI or Retina support. I installed via brew install wine and then enabled Retina mode using /usr/local/bin/regedit and adding the key and string

HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Wine/Mac Driver/RetinaMode

with the value

y

Starting /usr/local/bin/winecfg confirms that retina mode is enabled because it’s tiny, so on the winecfg Graphics tab I changed Screen Resolution to 192 (twice the default of 96, but any comfortable value should work) clicked Ok and relaunched winecfg to confirm that now it is beautifully rendered at a normal scale but with retina resolution.

In Winbox text is correctly rendered and is beautiful, however most other UI elements are rendered at half scale including Check Boxes, Button Outlines, Table Row Heights, Icons and the entire Terminal, including its text.

Here’s a screenshot at retina resolution with the menu bar and safari included so you can see the correct scale and the parts of the UI that are tiny:
winbox-retina.png
The text is beautiful but unfortunately it’s not usable this way. I have tested with some other programs in Wine/RetinaMode without problems. Perhaps I’m missing a setting in Wine or in WinBox but I think the cleanliness of the text is worth looking into if it’s possible to support RetinaMode in Wine. Is it possible?

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The issue seems to be that changing this setting:
96dpi.png
Only scales text in Winbox but not other UI elements, not even the row height that contains the text.
Here’s an example with retina mode off and DPI set to 192dpi instead of the default 96dpi:
192dpi.png
I suspect this behaves the same in Windows, can anyone confirm?

3

you don’t have to enable anything, winbox works fine at retina resolution by default, you are simply messing up the DPI right now. See how I have it here:
screen 3.jpg

4

Thank you Normis, but you misunderstand- that is not Retina, that is Pixel Doubled. I’d like to see if it’s not too much work to have text rendered at the native retina resolution rather than rendering at quarter resolution.

5

Here’s a comparison- Retina on the Left, Pixel Doubled on the right
compare2.png