10 Dec
2017
10 Dec
'17
9:37 a.m.
On Sat, Dec 9, 2017 at 19:21 (-0800), Vincent Reher wrote:
Hello TDE Developers,
I am not a TDE developer, but if you are willing to hear from random
people on this olist...
I recently purchased a Dell XPS15 laptop for my
daughter and before
I turn it over to her, I am experimenting to see what must be done
to make it usable under Linux/TDE for those with no better than
normal eyesight. Per EDID, the laptop's native screen resolution is
3840 x 2160 and its physical screen dimensions are 346 x 194mm
(~15.6" diagonal). My objective is to run the laptop at native
resolution both inside and outside of X (no re-scaling).
I am using a macbook pro
(2880x1800 on a 15" screen) and a 4K 27"
monitor, and I went through this a while back.
Having said that, while I use various TDE programs, I don't use TDE's
window manager, so this advice may not work for you.
<snip>
Of course, if HiDPI issues have already been addressed
by others in
the post R14.0.4 source code, that would be great.
I solved a lot of problems by putting
export GDK_SCALE=2
in my ~/.xprofile, which gets read by /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession,
/etc/tde/tdm/Xsession and /etc/kde/kdm/Xsession (at least on my
system) and helps a lot of GTK3 programs look reasonable.
It shouldn't hurt (too much) to give this a try. I'd be interested in
knowing how it works out.
It is too bad that so many software designers assume that screen
resolutions would be 90 - 100 DPI for all time.
Cheers.
Jim