macOS UI Scaling

[Claryn]

Hi.

 

Is there a way I can scale down the UI in macOS? I have a non-2016 Retina MBP13", and everything is 3 times larger than it should be. The menu-bar is taking up what feels like a third of the screen (not really) and Safari is using more screenspace to tell me what webpage I am on rather than showing it to me. 

I know that under Display there is a scaling-feature - but Im NOT scaling the resolution on my display so I can get horrible blurry graphics and mushy text that is unreadable.

 

Thanks

[Electronics Wizardy]

Use the scaling in displays, itstill doign to be sharp and run the screen at the full resolution. 

[Claryn]

15 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Use the scaling in displays, itstill doign to be sharp and run the screen at the full resolution. 

As I said, when I use that I can barely read text on the screen because of how blurry it is. 

[Electronics Wizardy]

3 minutes ago, Claryn said:

As I said, when I use that I can barely read text on the screen because of how blurry it is. 

It shouldnt be blurry. Is it blurry in all apps?

[Claryn]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

It shouldnt be blurry. Is it blurry in all apps?

Yes. All apps. I have done a restart, yes. 

[ChuckMaurice]

Are we talking about the main display or any external monitor?
Seems like the problem is caused by your eGPU as those are not officially supported.

Are you using Sierra?

[Claryn]

2 hours ago, jldjul said:

Are we talking about the main display or any external monitor?
Seems like the problem is caused by your eGPU as those are not officially supported.

Are you using Sierra?

Running Sierra. Internal display. I never mentioned an eGPU in this thread. There is nothing except a charger connected to this MacBook. 

[ChuckMaurice]

1 minute ago, Claryn said:

Running Sierra. Internal display. I never mentioned an eGPU in this thread. There is nothing except a charger connected to this MacBook. 

Ok I got it from your signature but if you're not using it that's probably a Sierra problem. Did you ever did some related change like using a software to get personalised screen resolutions? That could have been broken by Sierra.

[Claryn]

1 minute ago, jldjul said:

Ok I got it from your signature but if you're not using it that's probably a Sierra problem. Did you ever did some related change like using a software to get personalised screen resolutions? That could have been broken by Sierra.

I dont have any software that does anything like that. I have Nvidia Web drivers, but they are only enabled when the eGPU is connected. I believe I had this problem in El Capitan and in Yosemite as well, I just never bothered to check how to scale properly and just dealt with the larger UI. Now that I have moved to using Ubuntu as my main OS, I miss the smaller UI when I go back to macOS. 

[ChuckMaurice]

I've read reports of HiDPI scaling problems since Mavericks, but for external display only. I myself use a 15" MBP Retina (2013) on Sierra with no problem, but I don't have the Nvidia GPU.
Can you give us a comprehensive screenshot of the phenomenon? including the scaling setting page or every setting/thing you find useful.

[ChuckMaurice]

Only concerns text, but do you have this setting enabled? Beware that the setting has 3 states : enabled, reduced and disabled ( "-" in the checkbox is for reduced).

You also need to log out to apply this setting.

More info here if that's your problem, but unlikely.