Protip: ignore "scaling". Step 1: put 'xrandr --dpi <your actual DPI>' in .xinitrc Step 2: Use QT applications (Plasma is a fantastic QT desktop) Step 3: Enj

Protip: ignore "scaling". Step 1: put 'xrandr --dpi <your actual DPI>' in .xinitrc Step 2: Use QT applications (Plasma is a fantastic QT desktop) Step 3: Enjoy your reasonably sized everything. "Scaling" is a broken concept to work around applications assuming 96 DPI (which is considered scale=1). You don't need it if you use programs that actually respect your real DPI. Unfortunately X11 doesn't properly compute DPI settings, even though EDID information generally contains the screen size - I imagine, for fear of breaking stuff. (You can correct GTK3/GDK applications by setting GDK_DPI_SCALE=<actual dpi / 96>, but in my view it's a sin that you need to do that)