# Plots are tiny
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184
**Category:** VS Code
**Created:** [December 21, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184 "2020-12-21T15:46:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Peter\_Adelman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Peter_Adelman)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 3:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/1 "2020-12-21T15:46:55Z")
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:
if I change it to `(3600,2400)`, my plots get bigger:
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
---
### Author:  [@feanor12](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/feanor12)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 5:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/2 "2020-12-21T17:15:58Z")
As a workaround the option `fmt=:png` might work. It worked for me when using Pluto.jl.
```julia
plot(rand(10),fmt=:png)
```
---
### Author:  [@Peter\_Adelman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Peter_Adelman)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 5:48pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/3 "2020-12-21T17:48:49Z")
> [@feanor12](#):
>
> As a workaround the option `fmt=:png` might work
Thanks for the suggestion, but this did not affect it.
---
### Author:  [@ToucheSir](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ToucheSir)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/4 "2020-12-21T18:58:50Z")
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.
---
### Author:  [@Peter\_Adelman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Peter_Adelman)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 9:44pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/5 "2020-12-21T21:44:12Z")
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.
---
### Author:  [@ToucheSir](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ToucheSir)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 10:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/6 "2020-12-21T22:25:08Z")
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.
---
### Author:  [@Peter\_Adelman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Peter_Adelman)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/7 "2020-12-21T22:27:02Z")
Sorry for being unclear. This is in the VS Code interface (not a separate window, just a separate tab) and it looks like this:
---
### Author:  [@ToucheSir](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ToucheSir)
#### Post date: [December 21, 2020, 11:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/8 "2020-12-21T23:03:37Z")
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.
---
### Author:  [@Peter\_Adelman](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Peter_Adelman)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2020, 12:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/9 "2020-12-22T12:29:06Z")
Alright then, [ticket made](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/1829). Thanks for the assistance with my strange problem!
---
### Author:  [@Steven\_Varga](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Steven_Varga)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2020, 4:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/10 "2020-12-23T04:24:56Z")
For the record: [this post](https://github.com/julia-vscode/julia-vscode/issues/1829) lead to this [GR plot](https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/issues/3133) issue. Updating GR to `v0.53.0` fixed it for me. Thanks for the directions!
```julia
(@v1.5) pkg> add GR@0.53.0
```
---
### Author:  [@rmsmsgood](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rmsmsgood)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2021, 4:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/plots-are-tiny/52184/11 "2021-08-04T04:22:30Z")
It works for me. Thank you!