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until you plugin a second simple HD monitor and everything looks huge on it
by naringas 7y ago
until you plugin a second simple HD monitor and everything looks huge on it
- danieldk 7y agoNot if you use Wayland. GNOME with Wayland works fine with screens with different DPIs.
- crispinb 7y agoGnome does, but a WM that works isn't much use without apps that do likewise. Linux desktop software support for hdpi is an absurd mess. Some apps can switch resolution when you move them between screens. Others can't. When you combine this with Gnome's inability to deterministically start an app on the main monitor, this means sometimes it's sometimes literally impossible to get an app in the resolution & on the screen you want. Some apps start up with an apparently random resolution (Calibre, I'm looking at you!). What a horror show it is.
- crispinb 7y agoWayland sort-of handles this. That is to say you can set scaling per-screen without xrandr hacks (with Gnome anyway, not sure about xfce). But there's such a variation in support from apps, it's still a mess).
- arboghast 7y agoThis lol and the tiny title bars that can't be resized in XFCE unless editing the XFWM theme images (unlike Mutter where the title bar size can be changed in a file). Sorry but I don't have time for this anymore. I would have on my SUSE box in 2003.