said Thierry de Coulon via tde-users:
| My eyes are no more what they were, however I've always likes the idea | to run Linux on a tiny thing (got some Sharp Zaurus) and I've purchased | a (second hand) GPD Pocket (I thing I got the idea from a post on this | list).
Probably from me. When I got my GPD Pocket in 2018, I put Linux on it but could never get TDE to run properly there. There was at the time a decent Ubuntu respin that solved the issues you have encountered.
Last fall, I decided to resurrect it, and hit all of the issues you've encountered. You'll find some but not all the solutions on the Reddit GPD group.
| OK, so I've installed my favourite MX-Linux (and TDE) on it. However, | the 1200x1920 screen has very tiny pixels and the setup is quite uneasy | (with magnifying glass sometime), so before I poke everywhere to try, | maybe someone here âlready went through sometiing like that and could | suggest settings that work.
Which GPD are you using? The original, that looks like an Apple notebook that someone left in the dryer?
| I notices that TCC lists the sceen as "Philips PHL 273V7" but Internet | search suggests it's a 27" monitor....
I've not found a way -- there was one in the respin, but I'm running the current Debian on it now -- to make the initial login get bigger. But if you have just one user and know your password you really won't need to be able to read it at all to log in.
| Scaling? Can we do that in TDE? And this machine won't stand KDE | (neither would I). xfce did a little better, not much.
Oddly, I had KDE Plasma running on it okay in its Ubuntu livery. But I found that Enlightenment runs perfectly on it. (Rasterman told me he used to have the GPD, so this might figure in to how easily it is configured with E.) There is a relatively easy screen setting among the Enlightenment settings that lets you set everything's scaling to your liking. The one issue is with the orientation at first -- it's no fun at all trying to land on the buttons you want when the pointer is 90 degrees away from where the pointer control wants to put it. I know people who would smash the thing to the floor before getting there. But it can be done. I approached it as if it were a video game, which was good for anger reduction until I got it working.
| Change the screen size? I'd like to try something like 600x960 but | nothing such is offered by TCC
As I said, I never got TDE to work properly on it, as my anguished posts from 2018 attest. But E will give you good scaling and let you keep the original resolution, which is good if you want to, say, watch a movie on it. And I've found that all the TDE applications work just fine in Enlightenment.
Hope this is of some slight help, at least.