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Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> > and indeed XFCE doesn't seem to have very good support for this. |
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> >> > Maybe you can find some of the settings listed there useful |
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> >> > though. |
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> >> > Other than that, if you want working DPI scaling, you'll have |
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> >> > much better 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? |
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> >> Is there a better choice for HiDPI migration for people who like |
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> >> xfce4? |
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> > I'm using XFCE with a 140 DPI display and it's working fine. |
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> How high is your res? This laptop has a native res of 3200x1800 so |
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> that's what I *should* be using with DPI set a lot higher than 140 I |
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> believe, but when it gets that high things get weird. However I'm not |
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> sure how much of that can be alleviated by the DE. |
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You said your screen has a size of 13". When my 4k 32" screen has |
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a DPI resolution of 140dpi than your 4k screen has a resolution of |
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approximately 345dpi. |
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I don't see a reason why auch a high DPI value shouldn't work fine |
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also. |
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My monitor has a resolution of 3840x2160 and an approximate screen |
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diagonal of 32". Xorg says that the image size is 698 x 393 mm (don't |
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have a tapeline handy but IIRC that's correct). That's 27.48 x 15.47 |
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inch. |
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3840 / 27.48 = 139.74 |
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2160 / 15.47 = 139.63 |
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So 140 DPI seems to be a correct value for my monitor. And indeed |
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font's have nearly the same size on screen as before with my old |
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monitor (1920x1080, 27" 83DPI), but of course they are much sharper |
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now. |
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I'm using "Source Code Pro 10" as default font. For the XFCE panel |
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I use "Droid Sans 8" (you can configure this in ~/.gtkrc-2.0). |
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Antialiasing is on and Hinting is set to "Full". |
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You should check what pixel color order your display has. Most |
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displays use RGB, but some use an other order (my display uses BGR). |
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If this value is not set correctly and you use antialiasing |
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(strongly recommended) then fonts are looking fuzzy (colored edges). |
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As I already wrote, the DPI setting doesn't change the size of XFCE |
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window decorations, at least on my machine. I'm fine with the |
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standard window decoration size (I use the "numix" theme for that). |
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But if my display would have such a high DPI value as yours I probably |
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would use "Default-hdpi" or maybe even "Default-xhdpi" as theme for |
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the window decorations. |
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The size for icons used in menus, buttons, toolbars etc. can be |
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adjusted as well by modifying the theme gtkrc file. |
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Maybe it could be that you can only use sizes that are available as |
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bitmaps for the icon set you use. But I don't know, never checked |
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this. Maybe you can also use arbitrary sizes because for many icon |
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sets there exists a directory containing scalable icons in SVG format. |
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I would check out if it is possible to tweak your XFCE settings in |
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a way that everything looks good without the need to decrease the |
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Xorg resolution. |
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Regards |
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wabe |
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