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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 |
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>>> even both): a) the video driver is reporting the wrong size to Xorg, |
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>>> and/or |
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>>> b) the screen is reporting the wrong size to the driver. |
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>> I'm getting strange results from xdpyinfo. I always get 96x96 DPI and |
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>> the screen size changes along with the resolution. When I run 'xrandr |
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>> --dpi 200x200' and check xdpyinfo, it reports correctly. But if I log |
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>> out and back in to xfce4 without doing anything else, it gives me |
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>> 96x96 again. |
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> XFCE is probably forcing 96DPI by default. This is usually done by desktop |
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> environments that don't support DPI scaling very well. I just found this |
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> (sort of flame-war-ish) thread: |
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> https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=7734 |
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> and indeed XFCE doesn't seem to have very good support for this. Maybe you |
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> can find some of the settings listed there useful though. |
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> Other than that, if you want working DPI scaling, you'll have much better |
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> luck with KDE 5 / Plasma. |
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Won't I freak out if I'm an xfce4 guy and I try to switch to KDE? Is |
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there a better choice for HiDPI migration for people who like xfce4? |
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- Grant |
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