On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 11:54 (-0800), Vincent Reher wrote:
On Sunday 10 December 2017, Jim wrote:
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 19:21 (-0800), Vincent Reher wrote:
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Of course, if HiDPI issues have already been addressed by others in the post R14.0.4 source code, that would be great.
I solved a lot of problems by putting
export GDK_SCALE=2
in my ~/.xprofile, which gets read by /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession, /etc/tde/tdm/Xsession and /etc/kde/kdm/Xsession (at least on my system) and helps a lot of GTK3 programs look reasonable.
It shouldn't hurt (too much) to give this a try. I'd be interested in knowing how it works out.
Hi Jim,
I think the Firefox I am using was built to utilize GTK+-3.x. If that is correct, I did not see any issues with it despite the fact that the GDK_SCALE environment variable is not set.
One of the frustrations I had when getting things configured for HiDPI was that there was no unified thinking, so I had to use a bunch of different things to get things working. At this point I can't remember which subset of "everything" that GDK_SCALE=2 helped, but my notes indicate that (my attempts to) set the DPI with dconf-editor had no positive effect on anything I tried.
I am curious about one thing you mentioned: are actually using TDE (the desktop environment per se) with a window manager other than twin? If so, I would be interested to know how that worked out for you as I had noted that alternative window managers can be configured. That might solve at least the "microscopic window resizing arrows" part of the problem.
I don't think you can say I am using TDE with a different window manager. I am using another window manager and use some TDE programs, and so I try to keep track of what is going on in the TDE world. (Perhaps for me the primary TDE program I use is korganizer; the KDE4 version won't run without starting up some other "services" which I don't want running, and I have yet to see another calendar program for Linux with the same (or better) feature set.)
When I start up korganizer it starts some of the TDE desktop environment "services", but I don't know if anyone would consider me to be using TDE as an "environment". Perhaps this is a philosophical issue.
Cheers. Jim