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Make dpi_awareness compatible with Windows 11
deajan Jan 26, 2026
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Improve DPI awareness check for Windows Server
deajan Mar 23, 2026
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19 changes: 15 additions & 4 deletions FreeSimpleGUI/__init__.py
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Expand Up @@ -8571,10 +8571,21 @@ def set_options(

if dpi_awareness is True:
if running_windows():
if platform.release() == '7':
ctypes.windll.user32.SetProcessDPIAware()
elif platform.release() == '8' or platform.release() == '10':
ctypes.windll.shcore.SetProcessDpiAwareness(1)
try:
# Windows Server might return a string like "2022Server" on Python 3.13
# whereas it would return 10 on Python 3.7
# If we happen to find "server" in our release, let's just assume we're running
# a recent windows server version
if "Server" in platform.release():
ctypes.windll.shcore.SetProcessDpiAwareness(1)
elif platform.release() == '7':
ctypes.windll.user32.SetProcessDPIAware()
# Windows 8, 10 and 11 use the following API
elif int(platform.release()) >= 8:
ctypes.windll.shcore.SetProcessDpiAwareness(1)
except (ValueError, TypeError):
# If platform.release isn't a number or cant be computed here, just igonore it
pass

if scaling is not None:
DEFAULT_SCALING = scaling
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