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I love XFCE but nowadays it’s unbearable on a HiDPI screen. And so I discovered that Cinnamon is also a very good option when it comes to « a better Windows 20

by pjerem 2y ago

I love XFCE but nowadays it’s unbearable on a HiDPI screen. And so I discovered that Cinnamon is also a very good option when it comes to « a better Windows 2000 ui ». It’s also not incredible on HiDPI but at least Cinnamon is pretty good at not breaking everything when you increase font size by 150 or 200%. On XFCE if you do this everything becomes ugly.

nine_k 2y ago
Hmm, can't agree, having run Xfce for years on HiDPI screens. Go to Settings, Appearance, Advanced, set the font DPI to something like 144 or what works for your screen. The only thing that does not obey this is Firefox; the way to adjust it is to set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to something like 1.5 in about:config.
- mmphosis 2y ago
  Linux Mint XFCE. Appearance > Fonts > DPI Custom DPI setting: 144 makes fonts across the desktop larger. The default setting: 96 seems fine to me. The default in Firefox was -1.0 which is also fine.
- pjerem 2y ago
  Last time I tried (a few months ago), the text was indeed bigger but most window layouts were broken, the icons kept the same size etc etc …
wkat4242 2y ago
KDE is really excellent on HiDPI. Running it here on a 4K 24" screen and it looks amazing
- YarickR2 2y ago
  What monitor do you use ? 24" 4K is such a rare thing these days ; I'm using cheapo LG , but I always look out if there's something better
  - wkat4242 2y ago
    I'm using that cheapo LG 24UD58 :) unfortunately they only make 27" now. I really wish they would start making them again. 27" @ 4K is a little bit too low res for me.
Adverblessly 2y ago
I actually prefer XFCE's scaling via setting a font DPI to e.g. KDE/Gnome's scaling which increases everything in size and not just fonts. First because usually it is only text that I want to be larger so I can read it. Increases the size of "everything" just decreases UI density with no benefit (while things that conform to the text like button still increase in size to contain the text). Second because scaling "everything" often leads to ugly results. E.g. I use a program to browse local media files that generates thumbnails for those files. The size of the thumbnail generated matches the size of the widget it displays for that file. If the widget is scaled 1.5x due to UI scaling, it will show a blurry upscaled thumbnail.
Rapzid 2y ago
HiDPI pushed me to run Mint for a while, then multi-monitor issues with hiDPI finally pushed me to WSL. Been using WSL full time for over a year and have no plans to go back..
kelnos 2y ago
> I love XFCE but nowadays it’s unbearable on a HiDPI screen. How so? We support setting GTK's UI scaling to 2x, and (as of 4.18) I believe all the bugs around blurry icon rendering have been fixed. What exactly becomes ugly for you?

by pjerem 2y ago

nine_k 2y ago

Hmm, can't agree, having run Xfce for years on HiDPI screens. Go to Settings, Appearance, Advanced, set the font DPI to something like 144 or what works for your screen. The only thing that does not obey this is Firefox; the way to adjust it is to set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to something like 1.5 in about:config.

mmphosis 2y ago
Linux Mint XFCE. Appearance > Fonts > DPI Custom DPI setting: 144 makes fonts across the desktop larger. The default setting: 96 seems fine to me. The default in Firefox was -1.0 which is also fine.
pjerem 2y ago
Last time I tried (a few months ago), the text was indeed bigger but most window layouts were broken, the icons kept the same size etc etc …

wkat4242 2y ago

KDE is really excellent on HiDPI. Running it here on a 4K 24" screen and it looks amazing

YarickR2 2y ago
What monitor do you use ? 24" 4K is such a rare thing these days ; I'm using cheapo LG , but I always look out if there's something better
- wkat4242 2y ago
  I'm using that cheapo LG 24UD58 :) unfortunately they only make 27" now. I really wish they would start making them again. 27" @ 4K is a little bit too low res for me.

Adverblessly 2y ago

I actually prefer XFCE's scaling via setting a font DPI to e.g. KDE/Gnome's scaling which increases everything in size and not just fonts. First because usually it is only text that I want to be larger so I can read it. Increases the size of "everything" just decreases UI density with no benefit (while things that conform to the text like button still increase in size to contain the text). Second because scaling "everything" often leads to ugly results. E.g. I use a program to browse local media files that generates thumbnails for those files. The size of the thumbnail generated matches the size of the widget it displays for that file. If the widget is scaled 1.5x due to UI scaling, it will show a blurry upscaled thumbnail.

Rapzid 2y ago

HiDPI pushed me to run Mint for a while, then multi-monitor issues with hiDPI finally pushed me to WSL. Been using WSL full time for over a year and have no plans to go back..

kelnos 2y ago

> I love XFCE but nowadays it’s unbearable on a HiDPI screen. How so? We support setting GTK's UI scaling to 2x, and (as of 4.18) I believe all the bugs around blurry icon rendering have been fixed. What exactly becomes ugly for you?