Mac night screen settings mac#
Mac night screen settings windows#

Mac night screen settings windows#

To c heck the Windows VM’s scaling settings: right-click on Windows Desktop → Screen Resolution → Make text or other items larger or smaller → set 100% scaling and hit Apply and Sign Off. Just uncheck the Enable Retina Resolution option.

These programs can be any Windows-based applications like CAD, photo editors, QuickBooks or any other Windows-based program that doesn’t support high DPI resolution.Īdjust your Windows VM’s configuration settings: go to Hardware → Video and change the Retina setting from Best for Retina (or More Space) to Scaled (HiDPi disabled).

Or your program’s interface (GUI) looks broken in general.

Either the buttons aren’t displayed properly,.

Some of your programs in the Windows VM don’t look right:.

Once these settings are applied, please restart your VM. Setting 200% scaling in the VM will also fix the small fonts problem, but if you still experience this issue with small fonts in a particular Windows program, then you might need to check it again by setting the scaling back to 100%. To check scaling options, right-click on Windows Desktop → Screen Resolution → Make text or other items larger or smaller and set it to 200% scaling. Note: If you’ve changed Windows scaling options manually before, there’s a chance that after enabling Retina support Windows will not scale properly. Set the Best for Retina option and restart Windows. Windows will immediately change its resolution, though a VM reboot is recommended.

Mac night screen settings mac#

In the Mac menu, go to Actions ( Virtual Machine M enuin older versions of Parallels Desktop) → Configure → Hardware → Video and…Ĭheck the Enable Retina Resolution option for your VM. Here’s a short list of the optimal settings to get this fixed:

Everything looks very small or very big in your Windows VM.

Let me separate display resolution related issues into two types, depending on if it’s a Retina conflict or not. So the problem is not with the application or Parallels Desktop, this is just the way your virtualized Windows shows applications on a Retina display. This issue occurred because some Windows applications are not adapted for HiDPi resolution. First of all, Windows applications are not designed for Retina displays, as Microsoft does not support it at all (at least for now). Then it must be Windows or your Windows applications, right? Wait… What if it’s Parallels Desktop?Īctually, it’s none of these. Is it the Mac? No, your Mac has always worked great! It’s still too shiny to blame. But again, who’s the rat here? Let’s guess… So, what do we do next? Simple! We pull out our guns to shoot the rat causing this problem. Everything could’ve been working fine yesterday, but today you wake up and decide to check your email in your virtual machine and all the fonts and icons in Windows are either too BIGto digest or just too small to read. But in certain cases…well, you know how mysterious things can happen with software. In this post, I’ll guide you through configuring the ideal settings needed for you to enjoy the best display experience with Parallels Desktop running on your Mac.įirst, and most important, the default settings should be just fine. Guest blog by Dishant Tripathi, Parallels Support Team