On Sunday 10 December 2017, Jim wrote: > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-devel-unsubscribe@... > For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-devel-help@... > Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-devel.pearsoncomputing.net/ > Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting > > Hi Jim, I think the Firefox I am using was built to utilize GTK+-3.x. If that is correct, I did not see any issues with it despite the fact that the GDK_SCALE environment variable is not set. I am curious about one thing you mentioned: are actually using TDE (the desktop environment per se) with a window manager other than twin? If so, I would be interested to know how that worked out for you as I had noted that alternative window managers can be configured. That might solve at least the "microscopic window resizing arrows" part of the problem. Thanks, Vince -------------------------------------------------------