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Setting DPI in .Xresources had worked fine for me since 2014 except for Firefox and Chrome which took a year or so to adapt

perth 5y ago
Try to set two different DPIs in that.
- AshamedCaptain 5y ago
  You certainly can, but the problem is that there is no agreed standard from the toolkits to do it. E.g. Qt has its own way.
  - hulitu 5y ago
    Why does QT needs to be smarter ? Just asking.
    - jcelerier 5y ago
      Qt runs on platforms where there is literally only a kernel + the Qt app running, through for instance EGL for rendering. So it has to have its own way.
- Izkata 5y ago
  I don't have a second monitor right now to double check, but I have this in a script for our office monitors to get a different dpi for one display (named eDP-1): xrandr --dpi 100/eDP-1
DonHopkins 5y ago
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398ebd47 https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398... >My super 3D graphics, then, runs only on /dev/crt1, and X windows runs only on /dev/crt0. Of course, this means I cannot move my mouse over to the 3d graphics display, but as the HP technical support person said “Why would you ever need to point to something that you’ve drawn in 3D?” >Of course, HP claims X has a mode which allows you to run X in the overlay planes and “see through” to the graphics planes underneath. But of course, after 3 months of calls to HP technical support, we agreed that that doesn’t actually work with my particular hardware configuration. You see, I have the top-of-the-line Turbo SRX model (not one, but two on a single workstation!), and they’ve only tested it on the simpler, less advanced configurations. When you’ve got a hip, forward-thinking software innovator like Hewlett-Packard, they think running X windows release 2 is pretty advanced.
kaba0 5y ago
That’s for a single monitor. Now try two monitors with different DPIs

perth 5y ago

Try to set two different DPIs in that.

AshamedCaptain 5y ago
You certainly can, but the problem is that there is no agreed standard from the toolkits to do it. E.g. Qt has its own way.
- hulitu 5y ago
  Why does QT needs to be smarter ? Just asking.
  - jcelerier 5y ago
    Qt runs on platforms where there is literally only a kernel + the Qt app running, through for instance EGL for rendering. So it has to have its own way.
Izkata 5y ago
I don't have a second monitor right now to double check, but I have this in a script for our office monitors to get a different dpi for one display (named eDP-1): xrandr --dpi 100/eDP-1

DonHopkins 5y ago

https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398ebd47 https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-x-windows-disaster-128d398... >My super 3D graphics, then, runs only on /dev/crt1, and X windows runs only on /dev/crt0. Of course, this means I cannot move my mouse over to the 3d graphics display, but as the HP technical support person said “Why would you ever need to point to something that you’ve drawn in 3D?” >Of course, HP claims X has a mode which allows you to run X in the overlay planes and “see through” to the graphics planes underneath. But of course, after 3 months of calls to HP technical support, we agreed that that doesn’t actually work with my particular hardware configuration. You see, I have the top-of-the-line Turbo SRX model (not one, but two on a single workstation!), and they’ve only tested it on the simpler, less advanced configurations. When you’ve got a hip, forward-thinking software innovator like Hewlett-Packard, they think running X windows release 2 is pretty advanced.

kaba0 5y ago

That’s for a single monitor. Now try two monitors with different DPIs