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what an incredible waste of time. messing with dpi, crappy apps taking from here and there in 2021. linux desktop userspace is a dumpster fire
by sitzkrieg 6y ago
what an incredible waste of time. messing with dpi, crappy apps taking from here and there in 2021. linux desktop userspace is a dumpster fire
- woodruffw 6y agoAuthor here: as they say, Linux is free if your time is worthless. In my case, my time isn’t worthless but I do enjoy configuring my system. The tweaks shown in those blog post took me maybe half a day; I haven’t needed to make any significant changes since.
- sitzkrieg 6y agowell that is good that it holds up. i also have to make this tradeoff but am less enthusiastic about it obviously. switching to a single hidpi display has made it more tolerable with bigger DMs
- danieldk 6y agoThe problem is largely X11. Wayland desktops such as GNOME + Wayland applications generally work very well with HiDPI. Even X11 applications work reasonably well on XWayland on e.g. GNOME, as long as all screens use 100% or 200% scaling. Unfortunately, with fractional scaling things break down with X11 applications.
- gtirloni 6y agoIndeed. I'm running my 4k monitor at 100% and just increase the fonts in the apps themselves. It seems to work fine and there's no scaling involved.
- canofbars 6y agoIf you actually use a modern config like the defaults on Fedora it all just works. 100% of these problems come from people trying to use the proprietary nvidia drivers which is filled with issues.