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That's what puts me in the situation that caused me to start looking into this, though. I've got two displays; one high-dpi and one not. Without scaling the ent

That's what puts me in the situation that caused me to start looking into this, though. I've got two displays; one high-dpi and one not. Without scaling the entire display on the High-DPI display, I can't use my terminal app on both screens because the type will either be too big or too small. If points were actually points, I could use a 12pt or 14pt font on both displays and be perfectly happy. I'd still have to deal with how it changed the number of available columns, but that's a solvable problem.

iainmerrick 9y ago
What's wrong with scaling the entire high-DPI display? At least assuming you mean an OS-level thing that scales up font sizes and UI elements, not just scaling the raw pixels.
- bshacklett 9y ago
  I don't want to scale up all of the UI controls just so that I can have type that's readable. I can fit a lot on the screen by keeping the scaling level down and just zooming into web sites when necessary, but it's a lot harder to do that with a terminal app.
  - iainmerrick 9y ago
    Hmm, I still don't quite follow the problem, sorry. If you need to scale up the terminal text to read it, don't you still need to scale up the other parts of the UI, so you can see those too? On the Mac at least, it seems to me this stuff works reasonably well. You can set the overall scaling per-screen, and you can set the (scaled) font size used by the Terminal. It's really not clear to me why you'd need to change both the UI scaling and the font size on a particular screen.
    - bshacklett 9y ago
      You make a good point. I'm going to try scaling up the screen for a while and see how it goes. I can already see that the title bars, buttons, etc. are bigger than they need to be, but maybe not as bad as I originally thought.
      - iainmerrick 9y ago
        Yeah, for a while I insisted on setting my "retina" Macbook to its full resolution, but once I started using a second (non-retina) screen, I grudgingly scaled it to a more reasonable size and haven't looked back.

iainmerrick 9y ago

What's wrong with scaling the entire high-DPI display? At least assuming you mean an OS-level thing that scales up font sizes and UI elements, not just scaling the raw pixels.

bshacklett 9y ago
I don't want to scale up all of the UI controls just so that I can have type that's readable. I can fit a lot on the screen by keeping the scaling level down and just zooming into web sites when necessary, but it's a lot harder to do that with a terminal app.
- iainmerrick 9y ago
  Hmm, I still don't quite follow the problem, sorry. If you need to scale up the terminal text to read it, don't you still need to scale up the other parts of the UI, so you can see those too? On the Mac at least, it seems to me this stuff works reasonably well. You can set the overall scaling per-screen, and you can set the (scaled) font size used by the Terminal. It's really not clear to me why you'd need to change both the UI scaling and the font size on a particular screen.
  - bshacklett 9y ago
    You make a good point. I'm going to try scaling up the screen for a while and see how it goes. I can already see that the title bars, buttons, etc. are bigger than they need to be, but maybe not as bad as I originally thought.
    - iainmerrick 9y ago
      Yeah, for a while I insisted on setting my "retina" Macbook to its full resolution, but once I started using a second (non-retina) screen, I grudgingly scaled it to a more reasonable size and haven't looked back.