[tde-users] Re: how to force resize of kcalc-trinity?

On Tue, Nov 22, 2022 at 11:39 (+0100), deloptes wrote: Heresy and rubbish! The higher the resolution, the better (to a point, anyway). The problem is not the resolution (DPI). One problem, which may be what is affecting you, is that somewhere along the line someone apparently decided that having X report the correct DPI would require hard thinking, and so xorg started lying to us and saying the screen's DPI is 96, regardless of what it really is. So if your actual DPI is (say) 140, then your text will look small, unless somewhere you tell the font rendering library what the real DPI is (e.g., the X resource Xft.dpi), or you tell your desktop environment (or a specific program) to use larger fonts. I assume because your fonts are too small. If you run the command xdpyinfo | grep inch does it say resolution: 96x96 dots per inch ? And further, if you run appres Xft | grep dpi does anything show up? A while ago I got tired of all the lies, counter-lies, counter-counter-lies, and so on, and now when I log in before much of anything gets started I figure out the correct DPI and use xrandr to set it. And now, praise be, a PDF displayed at 100% scale is the correct width on my screen. And '()' in a 12pt font has a height on my screen about what I would expect. As it should be. Unfortunately, some things are specified in pixels, which is understandable in some cases, but mostly the wrong thing to do in a world where there are Hi-DPI screens. In my case, having convinced fonts to show up on my screen at the size they should be, I do need to specify a suitable icon size, but with that effort things work pretty well. I can go from my laptop screen (141.7 DPI) to my TV (something like 69 DPI, ugh) to my 27" 4k monitor (157 DPI?). In summary: high resolution: good X servers lying about the DPI: bad stupid programs that can't handle DPI != 96: ugly Cheers. Jim