On Wed 20 Jan 2016 11:17:26 AM Martin Steigerwald wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2015, 01:57:30 CET schrieb Thomas Fjellstrom: > > I finally was able to upgrade to the new kde packages in debian, and > > things > > are working pretty decently. Not perfect, but I can live with it :) > > > > Right now I'm having a few HiDPI related issues now that X and KDE seem to > > support it much better now. Kmail as a kde4 app has massive fonts even in > > the ui, probably due to reading in my old dpi and font sizes from the old > > kde install. > > > > Where do I find the right place to change those settings? I've searched > > around in my .kde dir a bit and didn't really find much that helped. > > > > Incidentally, I'm also having dpi issues with Chrome. People claim it > > works, but it never has for me :( even when I disable it's device > > scaling, > > it gets the fonts wrong (too large again). > > > > For reference, my laptop has a 1080p 15" screen for 148 dpi. > > There are two settings in Plasma 5 regarding DPI. Old setting I still use is > with Fonts. "Force dpi for fonts." I use 140 dpi for 1080p 15" screen. I > use a little les than 148 dpi, cause I have another 22 inch external > display and its gets to big there with 148 dpi. > > Second is in display settings (kscreen). "Scale display" or something like > that in english. I think I tried to use it, but I had an issue with it, so I > am still just using the font size scaling mentioned above. It seems you can > set a different dpi for different screens tough so I think I will have a > look at it again some day. Also it scales all elements not just fonts. > > I still dream on autodetecting dpi and automatic configuration for each > display. I.e. the underlying gui toolkit just using points. But well its a > complex issue and there have been quite some blog posts by KDE devs about > proper high-dpi support. And the screen scaling is what they came up with. > > Thanks,
Plasma and KDE 5+ stuff is fine. I'm having issues with KDE 4 stuff. Like kmail. -- Thomas Fjellstrom tho...@fjellstrom.ca