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>I tried VMWare and when running the VMWARE settings display at 200% The >CAVE menus are normal size the map is 1/4 sizes. If I reset the settings >display at 100% then the map is full size and the menu is so small I can >not easily read it. Same problem I had on the other two machines. That sounds like a display setting on windows - did you enable the high DPI settings as stated here: http://unidata.github.io/awips2/install/install-cave/#system-requirements_1 >How would I install python-awips in VMWare ? It's already installed. So you can open a terminal and run: conda activate python3-awips cd ~/python-awips jupyter notebook examples Thanks, Tiffany Meyer AWIPS Lead Software Engineer UCAR-Unidata If you're interested, please feel free to fill out a survey about the support you receive: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeDIkdk8qUMgq8ZdM4jhP-ubJPUOr-mJMQgxInwoAWoV5QcOw/viewform Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: IUD-228100 Department: Support AWIPS Priority: Critical Status: Open =================== NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publicly available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.