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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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>>>> 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 |
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>>>> 282.) |
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>>>> If that's not the number you get, then your graphics driver is reporting |
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>>>> it |
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>>>> wrong to Xorg, and you need to set it manually. |
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>>> |
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>>> This led me to the DisplaySize parameter for xorg.conf which helps a lot. |
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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 (sometimes |
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> even both): a) the video driver is reporting the wrong size to Xorg, 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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- Grant |
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