Scale Java Applications for 4K displays ======================================= Java applications often don't scale to higher resolutions (above Full-HD), making them barely readable on 4k resolutions. Generally, running an application with the additional ``JAVA-OPTS="-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2"`` environment variable scales the application (here: at a factor of 2). Depending on how the application is launched, the steps on adding this variable are different. On \*.desktop launcher files ---------------------------- #. Open the directory of the original ``*.desktop`` file. #. Create a copy of it, naming it something like ``_4k.desktop``. #. Open it in an editor and adjust the ``Exec=`` statement adding the needed environment variable. For example, change .. code-block:: none Exec=/usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=soapui-launcher.sh. org.soapui.SoapUI into .. code-block:: none Exec=env JAVA-OPTS="-Dsun.java2d.uiScale=2" /usr/bin/flatpak run --branch=stable --arch=x86_64 --command=soapui-launcher.sh. org.soapui.SoapUI #. Now run the new launcher file and the application should scale accordingly.