On Sat, 5 Aug 2017, Felix Miata wrote:
Felmon Davis composed on 2017-08-05 00:37 (UTC-0400):
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I've made a little progress but let me give you some results: xrdb yields dpi = 120
I have some new results to share.
before:
xdpyinfo yields: 3200x1800 pixels (270x216 millimeters)
Peculiar. 270x216 is a 1.25/1 ratio, 5/4, normally only seen with 1280x1024 resolution displays. 216 is a tad taller than that of a 1920x1080 17" screen.
resolution 301x212 dots per inch
A bizarre ratio: 1.42:1.
now I get:
resolution: 96x96 dots per inch dimensions: 3200x1800 pixels (846x476 mm)
why the difference? well, the terminal screen you get after shutting down X is really, really tiny and evidently, in one of my attempts to do something, I deleted /home/davisf! quite shocked when I couldn't log back in.
luckily, it's a 'virgin' system so no loss. I adduser dummy, deluser davisf and then adduser davisf and was back.
I reinstalled (apt-get) gdm and was able to log into Debian Desktop Environment fine; its dimensions were ok (as before).
I then purged tde/tdm and installed again (apt-get). logged in ok with the usual font problems. then I punched around rather unsystematically trying different font sizes and also using 'GTK Styles and Fonts'; did a liberal dosage of 'about:config' in Firefox and fooling with kicker or whatever it's called.
I wish I had taken more careful note because inevitably I will have to reproduce it all sometime. but the result is a pretty decent desktop.
here is what I still am unhappy with:
(a) though I can change most of the fonts in Pan, I cannot change the menu fonts; same for LibreOffice. I still need to get Apache Office up to see what it does.
(b) if I kill X or boot into terminal, I get that teensy-weensy font on the terminal. I recall you discussing some kernel fixes for this....
if I could only find where the magic is for GTK config files. I do have
.gtkrc-2.0.kde4 .gtkrc-2.0.kde-kde4 .config/gtk-3.0
if I only know what recipes to cook with.
I have to run out now so will respond to a couple of points you made a bit later but wanted to get out this report.
f.
however:
your website yields what seem to me correct values except for dpi. it
DPI and default font px size reporting require you let the scripts run.
seems not to capture the dpi values at all but maybe I misinterpret: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B--R0Wp8z2MkaTVtNmZ0TnRPNjg/view?usp=sharing
Interesting. Screen totals are correctly reported. Available and Viewport show exactly the values expected for a somewhat common screen size of 2560x1440. I have to wonder how you managed to get a Konq window to open at that size on a 3200x1800 screen. Odds must be astronomical that it happened by accident.
I've commented out HorizSync and VertRefresh though I did run
hwinfo --monitor | grep -A6 'river Inf'
and it says "Size: 293x165 mm"
That's about as close as Xorg ever gets to accurate. My calculator says a 13.3" screen should measure 294.44 by 165.62. Is that the result of using DisplaySize in xorg.conf set to manufacturer's screen size specifications?
so there's some data (or there're some data) and a couple of incongruities.
I'll stop here and talk about the progress I alluded to earlier.
I think I have kde apps in ok shape by fooling with fonts and setting fonts to
System Settings 120 dpi
what doesn't work is management of LibreOffice, Firefox, the intro display for Trinity Control Center and various apps which I think are GTK (and then there's that grotesquely large login page).
I don't see exegnu on DistroWatch, so without it installed, or more information on its web site than I've seen, I don't know if GTK3 is installed or what toolkit your LO or FF packages are built using. It looks like GTK apps are just not capable of reasonably responding to a display of such high DPI on exegnu, or maybe without being run in Gnome or Mate or other GTK DE or absent some unusual manual gtk configuration or additional package support. Your inability to find any gtk*3* packages installed is somewhat puzzling. A distro released only late last year ought to be providing at least basic GTK3 support.
I'll be installing Apache Office which I prefer but suspect it will have the same problem as LO.
it seems to me I have to fuss with GTK.
Maybe searching in OO or LO forums for HiDPI discussions would prove fruitful.
Maybe we need to have a look at your xorg.conf if you're still using it.
At least let's see Xorg.0.log generated by the best configuration you've come up with so far, with or without an xorg.conf.
or I may follow your advice below and alter the display mode. that's > for tomorrow or the next day.
...
I may return the laptop.
Assuming running at lower than native resolution won't be acceptable to you, that sounds like a good idea, unless you have really really good young eyes and better tolerance for things tiny than the existence of this thread suggests. It seems something in some software component, or maybe more than one, is just too broken for working on a 276 physical DPI screen.
Is Windows still on it? What are its display/screen and font settings?