Re: [cdesktopenv-devel] Fwd: scaling down/up

[Antonis Tsolomitis]

Thanks Eugene, I will look into dtwm resources and see what I can modify. Most monitors today have high resolution and so CDE is fine on them. But some strong laptops (in terms of processors and RAM) are still sold with low resolution monitors and the panel looks too big on them. Another thing I noticed is that if you set RESOLUTION=medium or RESOLUTION=high for dtwm the panel uses the large icons in both cases, and only the desktop switcher is scaled a bit. So only RESOLUTION=low makes the panel really smaller. Antonis. On 11/06/2015 04:50 πμ, Eugene Doudine wrote: AFAIK, as for central configuration, some applications (style, calendar, dtcreate) do make automatic adjustments to their look on basis of screen size using the  same mechanism that is used by the panel (it is _DtGetDisplayResolution function in lib/DtSvc/DtUtil2/GetDispRes.c), but unfortunately (someone please correct me), I do not believe that any application but dtwm has any override options. On the other hand, dtwm has several useful resources you can play with: frameBorderWidth, resizeBorderWidth:  frame sizes for not resizable and resizeable windows iconImageMaximum: maximum size for minimized app icons. I think It would be great if there were such a central mechanism to override resolution  selection for all applications like there is one for selection of font size. BTW, has anyone tried running CDE on those new shiny 4K monitors?  Is it  usable on them? Regards, Eugene On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Antonis Tsolomitis <antonis.tsolomi...@gmail.com> wrote: Indeed this works. Thank you. But affected only the panel. I guess that if one wants this configuration he has to scale down other things too. Like the minimized on desktop applications or CDE apps. For example, I open dtstyle or dtfile and everything is as large as it was, although dtpanel has become smaller with the configuration you suggested. So the question is if one can make this smaller (for low resolution screens) with one configuration. If not I guess I have to configure every single app. thanks, Antonis. On 10/06/2015 08:09 πμ, Eugene Doudine wrote: Hi, Regarding the panel: In the default configuration it is supposed to select icons of proper resolution   (16x16, 32x32 or 48x48) and size other interface elements automatically depending on the screen size. Looks that the algorithm does not work optimally for your display, so you need to override it in the panel configuration: add RESOLUTION  statement  to panel configuration in dtwm.fp (system one resides in /usr/dt/appconfig/types/LOCALE/dtwm.fp). Valid values are: high, medium, low, match_display. PANEL FrontPanel {    ....    RESOLUTION             low    ... } See dtfpfile(4), dtdtfile(4) for details. Best regards, Eugene On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Antonis Tsolomitis <antonis.tsolomi...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi. Is it possible to scale down everything on the desktop? Say the panel? I ask this because the panel looks big on low resolution monitors (on some laptops). Antonis. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel

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