Running Low Display Version on Retina

[anlek]

I originally came across this idea reading this article: http://lifehacker.com/5611711/create-application-shortcuts-in-google-chrome-for-mac-with-a-shell-script

I made a gitlab app, and am having a problem uploading files (the window comes behind the browser and I'm unable to upload) so I tired your script, and for some reason, it gives me Chrome window running non retina version. See screenshot:

[lhl]

Hmm weird, if you want to try a fix and are handy w/ some basic text editing foo, go into the App Contents and edit the file: $APPNAME.app/Contents/MacOS/$APPNAME - it's just a bash script that launches Chrome. You can try to add " --force-device-scale-factor=2" to see if you can force Retina rendering?

I don't have a retina display so if that doesn't work I'm not gonna be able to help you until a Retina MBA comes out but maybe someone else can take a look?

[stephenmckinney]

That didn't work for me. My bash script is the following:

#!/bin/bash
ABSPATH=$(cd "$(dirname "$0")"; pwd)
exec "$ABSPATH/Gmail Chrome" --force-device-scale-factor=2 --app="https://mail.google.com" --user-data-dir="$ABSPATH/../Profile" "$@"

[aerickson]

Confirming this problem. Adding the force-device-scale-factor argument didn't work for me either.

Very strange.

[aerickson]

fix via: http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/69038/open-in-low-resolution-checkbox-on-retina-macbook-pro-checked-and-disabled

Add this to the APP.app/Contents/Info.plist before the ending tag.

NSHighResolutionCapable
True

Works great for me.

[aerickson]

Looks like we can fix the code that generates the apps by inserting this block after line 83 in https://github.com/lhl/chrome-ssb-osx/blob/master/chrome-ssb.sh.

[lhl]

Merged from 8a8fb82 so closing.