Plots are tiny

Tooling VS Code
#1

Within the last two months, my plots started rendering as tiny in VS Code.

If I set the default size as (900,600), my plots are tiny:
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if I change it to (3600,2400), my plots get bigger:

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VS Code correctly detects my screen resolution (1920,1080), but for some reason rendering (streaming?) this over ssh (CentOS7 with ENV_GKS_WS = 100) results in a way scaled down image. When I write the plot to disk as a PNG, it loads at the expected size.

VS Code Julia extension 1.0.10
VS Code 1.52.1
Julia 1.5.3

#2

As a workaround the option fmt=:png might work. It worked for me when using Pluto.jl.

plot(rand(10),fmt=:png)
#3

Thanks for the suggestion, but this did not affect it.

#4

Plots in the plot window are usually smaller. I believe there’s an icon that appears on hover which you can use to open the plot previews in a separate tab. That tab should allow for zooming in and usually renders at a higher resolution.

#5

I go through SSH (to a Julia dev environment container via the remote - containers addon), so it pops up in a separate tab all the time with no hover-over properties and used to default to full resolution.

It is interesting that the default behavior is thumbnail and probably hints to the cause of my problem.

#6

That default behaviour only applies to the built-in plot pane IIRC. I’m not sure what’s going on if you have a separate window popping up.

#7

Sorry for being unclear. This is in the VS Code interface (not a separate window, just a separate tab) and it looks like this:
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#8

Yup, that was what I was referring to (s/window/tab). Looks like either the hover functionality was removed or I was confusing it with the Python plots window. Either way, your best bet is probably to file an issue.

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#9

Alright then, ticket made. Thanks for the assistance with my strange problem!

#10

For the record: this post lead to this GR plot issue. Updating GR to v0.53.0 fixed it for me. Thanks for the directions!

(@v1.5) pkg> add GR@0.53.0