On May 10, 2018 7:09 PM, Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer(a)gmail.com> wrote: thanks. when we get the vid driver acceleration going as it should, that will be a possibility (though gtk2 stuff shows up very tiny -- the screen is 2160x1080 and only 6-inches diagonally -- because apparently gtk2 doesn't listen to what the desktop configuration has to say about the matter. but i'll give it a shot. a more urgent issue is the little 128gb microSD i buried deep inside the gadget today in hope of making it /home. i went to edit /etc/fstab to add it and guess what? there *isn't any* /etc/fstab! this is a frigging systemd system! nor do any of the drive configurators we know and love work with systemd, apparently. this has made me very cross. ​dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.​

On May 10, 2018 9:33 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote: It is indeed 96 dpi. In LXQT and KDE (!) on the device I've been able to mitigate it some through font size, but the random GTK application has no special place to fix it, mostly. I went ahead and d/led claws and installed it, and I like it -- it's the closest I've found to KMail. I was able to adjust some of the fonts, but even so there are some places where the gadget could really benefit from a pointing device. Scrollbars, for instance, are just about impossible -- they're really narrow and with the currently slow video drivers it makes for a kind of crapshoot, because often by the time you realize you got it this time you've overshot the place you were scrolling to. Likewise tiny little buttons -- you might hit the one you want or you might hit the one that does the opposite of what you want. Keyboard-only navigation is important! Because the gadget has two USB-C ports, I'll plug the little hub into the appropriate one tomorrow and plug a mouse into it and get to the configuration options that have otherwise escaped me. Oh, and you sometimes but not always can scroll a page by dragging it up -- sometimes it just selects contents. LXQT wouldn't be all that awful if it weren't so authoritarian. You'd think you could change the desktop wallpaper, and you would be wrong. You can change themes, but the developers discourage writing them. There is *one* icon size -- I could use some much bigger ones. And so on. There is work to be done. A real concern for a time was screens that hang over the edge, so that you couldn't poke at "OK" or "Cancel," but one of the developers wrote a hack that lets you move the window with Alt+finger drag. Until then, people were installing LXQT on their desktop machines and counting how many tabs it was to "OK." This was particularly an issue in the Connman wifi configurator (that I guess will also be the Connman phone configurator, when all that is working). The guys plugged in an x2 zoom such that it's effectively 1080x540. If it weren't for stuff like scrollbars, I'd rather do it by adjusting fontsize, because I do a lot of work in the GIMP, and the higher the resolution the happier I am for that. I'm of two minds about that. I have an iPad mini with a Retina display, and that's 2048x1536 and is mostly fine -- of course, its 8-inch display is a whole lot bigger. But that resolution works fairly well, I'm told, on the iPhone. The problem here, to me, is more the 2:1 (which for some reason people call 18:9 -- why not 486:243? Or throw caution to the wind and call it 2160x1080?) aspect ratio. You can run two applications side by side -- but it's then two applications that are both too small to see well. 3:2 or 4:3 would be better, imho, and then there would be room for a pointing device and a few more keys. It's an adventure! And what's cool is that apt-get update apt-get upgrade every day brings something that makes it better. One enduring irritation is that not everything is compiled for arm64, so workarounds for missing but essential applications is a pain. ​dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.​

On May 10, 2018 10:51 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda(a)earthlink.net> wrote: Good question, and one for which I have no answer. I was on chat with some of the Linux-for-Gemini developers as I was setting up the machine, and I mentioned that changing the dpi from 4XX to 2XX might make my tired old eyes better able to see stuff on the screen. Whereupon it was said that as shipped it had a x2 zoom factor built in. I am most very interested in this, and have no experience with it. I changed DPI long ago (how long? Well, it was in xf86config) and I think maybe in a KDE setting once or twice. But I know nothing of a zoom knob or where I might experiment with it. Any advice/help with it would be appreciated. ​dep Sent withProtonMailSecure Email. Because privacy matters.​

On Thu, 10 May 2018 22:20:00 -0400 dep <dep(a)drippingwithirony.com> wrote: If you're still struggling with this, you can override the font size (not the DPI or zoom factor) for GTK2 applications by editing .gtkrc-2.0 for the appropriate user. Mine has the line gtk-font-name="Times New Roman, 12" which does indeed produce text of the expected font and size. Scrollbar width should be determined by the styles being applied. Unfortunately, it's been a long time since I last looked into GTK2 styles (I threw together something that satisfied me circa 2012 and have left it alone since). It's probably a setting applied to Gtk-Scrollbar:: or Gtk-Range::, though, and the style files are plain text and can be grepped for examples. E. Liddell