Re: [gentoo-user] Re: High resolution on a 13 inch screen

[Grant]

>> My laptop's 13" screen has a native resolution of 3200x1800 which
>> makes everything crazy small on-screen.  Is there a good method for
>> telling Xorg or xfce4 to compensate, or should I one-at-a-time my
>> applications?
>
> Depends on your desktop. I'm not sure if XFCE supports this, but in KDE
> everything scales to my monitor's DPI automatically.
>
> What is the output of:
>
>   xdpyinfo | grep -i resolution
>
> (The utility is in the x11-apps/xdpyinfo package.)
>
> On such a small screen, the result should be a very high DPI (around 282.)
> If that's not the number you get, then your graphics driver is reporting it
> wrong to Xorg, and you need to set it manually.


This led me to the DisplaySize parameter for xorg.conf which helps a lot.

Thanks,
Grant