On Tue, Aug 26, 2025 at 05:47 (+0200), Thierry de Coulon via tde-users wrote:
On Monday 25 August 2025 23:43:35 Jim via tde-users wrote:
Rather than specifying font sizes in terms of pixels (which was a bad idea from day 1), I specify my font sizes in points. Given the Xft now knows the truth (i.e., what the actual DPI of the screen is), when I ask for (say) a 12pt font, it shows up on my screen at 12pt. Not at some teeny-tiny 6 point or something
Sounds interresting. Where do you put these instruction so that TDE draws a usable desktop on a high DPI screen?
Hi Thierry,
It seems Nik has answered (partially or wholly, depending on your knowledge), although his answer doesn't address using xrandr to expunge the lie that the screen is 96 DPI.
I use Slackware, and the instructions are (evidently) a bit different for Slackware than for debian-based distros. I would have put some of these settings (such as the default GDK_DPI_SCALE) in ~/.xprofile, but maybe Debian doesn't play nicely with that way of doing things. (I have convinced Raspbian (based on Debian) to show everything at a reasonable size on a Hi-DPI monitor, and even though I don't have TDE on any RPi, if things work on Raspbian + fvwm than you should be able to get them to work on Debian + trinity.)
Cheers. Jim