DPI Scaling: 4K and 1080p Monitors

Is this assertion extracted from ChatGPT correct:

It’s certainly my experience. I overcome it by maximising a Scrivener window before swapping (Win+Shift+Left or Win+Shift+Right) it between disparate displays, else the display if overly large or very small.

I run the latest version of Windows 11, as in the regular Canary builds, so it’s not the OS.

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Can you be more specific as to the issue? I run Scrivener for Windows just fine on 4k monitors without everything being tiny. This quit being an issue a while back?

Then again, I may have just resized everything–which you can do.

The 4k monitor and the scaling in Scrivener is not the problem. OS display setting set to 225%.
The 1080p monitor and it’s scaling of Scrivener is also not the problem. OS display setting set to 100%.
When used alone to launch Scrivener, they display Scrivener quite fine.
Switching windows between the monitors, Scrivener resizes either smaller or larger, dependant on which way you’re swapping, because of their unequal resolution.
As I’ve said, I have a solution, but was posing the question, because implementing the solution each time is a slight irritation.
Moving something like Office apps between screens, auto scales to the right size, to the size they would render used as a standalone display, not Scrivener, developed on the Qt framework on Windows.
For background info and certainly has no impact on answering this query: I run Scrivener’s Editor at 180%, which gives me something close to WYSIWYG on the 4K laptop for an A4 printout or closely compatible Word full width display, when using the default Windows font Aptos at 10 pt. My Binder and Inspector use Segoe UI 10 pt, which renders small and crisp without serifs.

Yeah I got nothing for that one. My 27" 4k is set to 125% and my 16" gaming laptop with a 2560x1600 is also set to 125%.

I have noticed that the Apple Music Beta app’s miniplayer looks bizarre when set to different percentages (say like 125% and 150%) so Windows may just not work as well with that.

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This is an issue for me too. I have a 4K and a 1080p monitor. The scaling goes awry whenever I move the window to another monitor.

The devs won’t answer, it’s SEP.
But the good news is @Kevitec57’s solution in the OP’s first post works.