2 Dec
2016
2 Dec
'16
8:23 a.m.
Felix Miata wrote:
Anyway - I think what we learned is that DPI must be set when X is starting.
The setting does not do anything different.
regards
deloptes composed on 2016-12-01 22:08 (UTC+0100):
In the control panel there is option to select the icon size for the theme.
I prefer 48px - look there.
Felix Miata wrote:
If you change dpi and restart the window manager
I would expect that
icons look different. Perhaps you can test that
Did you happen to load the images below? They show at least one at same
size (Firefox), and three not (upper right), the latter of which I suppose
are entirely different icons used on account of the elevated DPI, but also
could be SVGs rather than bitmaps.
For my eyes, most icons are sized too small to describe their purpose
(those in Gimp and LibreOffice are among the worst offenders), so that I
either see them as flags, a target to hit with mouse pointer after seeing
a tooltip that describes their purpose, or as a complete waste of space. I
prefer meanings conveyed by words, but well recognize sometimes words
simply cannot express that which is obvious in a picture.
> As an
additional exercise, compare the following (from separate sessions
> using configurations differing only in configured DPI (xrandr in startup
> script)). Note that the titlebar's right side's icons are larger, but
> not the left's (Firefox) icon, and that nothing within the application's
> web content area seems differently sized (movies, images and most web
> text are sized in px): http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/dt1680x108.png
> http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/dt1680x144.png
Under look and feel -> fonts you can enforce
the DPI
Not all environments make such an offer. I prefer that a DPI specification
in most cases be made prior to, at, or as early as possible during Xorg
initialization, in any event prior to a particular user's exposure to WM
output.