Anno domini 2022 Sun, 13 Feb 09:32:10 -0800 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:

On Sunday 13 February 2022 07:48:43 Thierry de Coulon wrote:

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I know we allready has this in some way.

I now have a new-old (mean second hand) Lenovo X1 Tablet (because I need the touchscreen).

Installing MX-Linux " TDE was quite easy and, so far, everything runs fine (I have not tried sleep/hibernate yet).

The machine has a (nice) display with a 3000x2000 resolution. Xfce takes care of this with a gtk setting that lets "multiply" everything by two.

So far I have "adapted" TDE by choosing bigger icons. I seem to remeber there was some other place where I could also make things bigger - I'll find it.

Just wanted to know if anyone with experience with such a display has developped a "good" way to scale Trinity.

Thierry

It sounds like you mean changing the size of the display itself?

If you run the command tderandrtray (Trinity resize and rotate), you will find an icon added to your task bar. That will give you give quick access to your settings.

Otherwise, you can find it in Trinity Control Center: TCC / Peripherals / Display / Size & Orientation.

Or maybe change the DPI settings in appearence/fonts ?

Nik

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On Monday 14 February 2022 03:27:20 Thierry de Coulon wrote:

On Sunday 13 February 2022 18.42:44 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote:

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If you run the command tderandrtray (Trinity resize and rotate), you will find an icon added to your task bar. That will give you give quick access to your settings.

I wonder, what's the difference between tderandrtray and xrandr.

I can modify the size of what is shown on my screen with xrandr ans --scale. Works well, but if I understand right this will "multiply" the pixels for all apps I run, which quite negates the advantages (if any) of a 3000x2000 screen.

I can set the resolution to 1680x1050 in tderanrtray. Result seems about the same. So tderandrtray is "simply" a TDE front end to xrandr?

Thierry

Instead of "simply", I would say "probably" or "maybe": others will have to answer that question. Many more options are available in xrandr than in tderandrtray.

This is a way to enlarge everything in your display, yes, but at the sacrifice of changing the aspect ratio.

I have the same problem with old eyes, but small icons, etc., don't bother me so much; it's small letters or some programs that insist on falling back to Gnome or KDE5 color schemes and can't be changed, so that some stuff isn't easily visible to me.

Since I copy my home folder back and forth between my laptop and desktop computers sometimes, I like to keep settings mostly unchanged. In an ideal world, I would keep the laptop only for travel, or for when I do research in a library, etc., and I would always work at a proper desk with my desktop computer and its large screen.

When I move over to the laptop, I change visibility for each item individually, on an ad hoc basis; e.g., for browser windows by using CTRL+ and CTRL-, and enlarging my media players to double size, etc., rather than trying to enlarge everything with a single solution.

One could of course go through everything in the system that affects display, and enlarge the taskbar and clock, and by changing font sizes in every program. But if, like myself, you try to keep your settings the same, so that you can use the same desktop on different machines, then you don't want to make permanent changes.

It may be that there is a better way; if so, I would be glad to know of it myself.

Bill

On Tuesday 15 February 2022 01.40:41 Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:

Hi Michele

tderandrtray provides an easy to use interface for xrandr. It uses xrandr behind the scenes. Cheers Michele

Thanks. It has the advantage over xrandr that I can switch from one resolution to another.

However I don't seem to be able to set tderandrtray to always start at anything but maximum resolution (3000x2000). I've tried to do something with profiles but I get weird colours when I try to activate a profile...

Thierry

Thierry de Coulon composed on 2022-02-15 09:08 (UTC+0100):

Michele Calgaro via tde-users wrote:

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tderandrtray provides an easy to use interface for xrandr. It uses xrandr behind the scenes. Cheers

Thanks. It has the advantage over xrandr that I can switch from one resolution to another.

However I don't seem to be able to set tderandrtray to always start at anything but maximum resolution (3000x2000). I've tried to do something with profiles but I get weird colours when I try to activate a profile...

xrandr always works for me for selecting alternate resolutions, though my single display maximum is 2560x1440. My xrandr scripts go in /etc/X11/*, where exactly depending on distro.

Anno domini 2022 Sun, 13 Feb 18:44:17 +0100 Thierry de Coulon scripsit:

On Sunday 13 February 2022 18.32:10 William Morder via tde-users wrote:

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It sounds like you mean changing the size of the display itself?

I'll take a look. I mean making everything bigger on the desktop (as my old eyes can't really read those tiny characters at 3000x2000).

gtk obviously has a way to "double" everything. On TDE I've changed "Force fonts DPI" from 96 to 192 and it globaly works well. Fonts in the TDE "start menu" still are tiny, but as I put the icons to start most important things in kicker I could live with it.

I'm still testing various settings in "Fonts" to see what it changes.

I found that changing the DPI settings to anything different than 96 gives interesting results. Especially GTK does funny things with fonts.

Nik

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On Sunday 13 February 2022 10:10:36 ajh-valmer wrote:

On Sunday 13 February 2022 18:32:10 William Morder via tde-users wrote: ......

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It sounds like you mean changing the size of the display itself ?

If you run the command tderandrtray (Trinity resize and rotate), you will find an icon added to your task bar. That will give you give quick access to your settings.

Hello,

# tderandrtray (root or user) the result : "[FIXME] UNCLASSIFIED DEVICE name: 0000:00:16.0-05b79a6f-4628-4d7f-899d-a91514cb32ab type: (null) subsystem: mei driver: mei_wdt [Node Path: (null)] [Syspath: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000 and many lines "[FIXME] UNCLASSIFIED DEVICE", And no icon added to my task bar

Cheers

André

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Otherwise, you can find it in Trinity Control Center: TCC / Peripherals / Display / Size & Orientation.

You get the strangest results! However I seem to recall that you are relatively new here.

Do not run it as root!

1. You ought to be able to open a "run command" window with ALT-F2, then just enter tderandrtray.

2. Another way is to right-click on your menu editor, look for Screen Resize & Rotate (TDERandRTray) and click the button with option to place in system tray.

3. Still another way is to left-click on your menu editor, search for Screen Resize & Rotate (TDERandRTray) then drag it to your lower panel. Not as good, but it's a start.

4. Yet one more way is to right-click on your lower panel (that's where I put mine), then look for Add Application to Panel / System / Screen Resize & Rotate (TDERandRTray)

But you ought to be able to add it to your system tray. It has been a long time since I did this, so pardon my possible faulty memory. If anybody else knows better, please jump in here.

Once you get your panel set how you want, lock it and leave it alone. That's why I don't want to try removing it in my own system, then trying to add it again. Whenever I mess with my lower panel, my icons and clock, etc. sometimes start to wander around.

Try these steps and see what if you get it added. It's a tiny blue & white icon with diagonal arrows.

Bill

On Monday 14 February 2022 02:32:15 ajh-valmer wrote:

Hello,

Sorry, now tderandrtray works fine (I don't know why ?), effectively, an icon tderandrtray appears down on the right.

Cheers,

André

Good to hear it!

Bill