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On 04/09/17 22:24, Grant wrote: |
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>>>> My laptop's 13" screen has a native resolution of 3200x1800 which |
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>>>> makes everything crazy small on-screen. Is there a good method for |
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>>>> telling Xorg or xfce4 to compensate, or should I one-at-a-time my |
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>>>> applications? |
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>>> |
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>>> Depends on your desktop. I'm not sure if XFCE supports this, but in KDE |
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>>> everything scales to my monitor's DPI automatically. |
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>>> What is the output of: |
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>>> xdpyinfo | grep -i resolution |
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>>> (The utility is in the x11-apps/xdpyinfo package.) |
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>>> On such a small screen, the result should be a very high DPI (around 282.) |
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>>> If that's not the number you get, then your graphics driver is reporting it |
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>>> wrong to Xorg, and you need to set it manually. |
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>> This led me to the DisplaySize parameter for xorg.conf which helps a lot. |
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>> |
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> Is there a way to digitally discover the true height and width of your |
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> screen in mm? |
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Yes. xdpyinfo shows the information: |
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xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution |
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If the information is wrong, that usually means one of two things |
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(sometimes even both): a) the video driver is reporting the wrong size |
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to Xorg, and/or b) the screen is reporting the wrong size to the driver. |
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