28 Sep
2021
28 Sep
'21
9:28 p.m.
Hi all,
It is unfortunate that someone in the Linux world followed yet another
piece of M$ brain damage and decided that X should lie to all the apps
and tell them that the screen DPI is 96.
I have a little program that is run before my window manager starts
which sets the DPI to the actual honest-to-goodness value. This
automagically fixes most things for me without me needing to tweak all
the font sizes. And, as an added bonux, when I tell a non-brain-dead
program to draw text at (say) 12pt, the font actually appears at 12pt
on the screen.
I don't use "a full TDE session", so I'm not sure where the best place
to do this is for TDE (or, for that matter, whether TDE will correctly
deal with DPI != 96). However, essentially my program finds out the
physical size of the screen, the number of pixels, calculates the
pixels per inch, and then runs
xrandr --output $SCREEN --dpi $DPI
where $SCREEN is the name of the screen to be set, and $DPI is the
calculated number of pixels per inch. Interestingly, recent Xorgs
allow a non-integer DPI setting.
Cheers.
Jim
On Tue, Sep 28, 2021 at 22:17 (+0200), MLR wrote:
Hello,
I bought a 27" UHD monitor, before that I had a
27" 1080 monitor.
Everything is too small on the monitor. I can change the fonts, icons
and other individual things, but not the whole desktop.
I tried this in Plasma, I can easily scale the whole
desktop (with
Firefox and other none plasma stuff). This is wonderful, so now I have
to use Plasma. :/
> Can't I find the setting in Trinity or does the option not exist?