Daniel Pocock wrote: > The actual DPI is about 131x137 on a 32" display. [...] > Some web sites suggested using gnome-tweak-tool to change the window > scaling factor. It only appears to accept integer values and changing > it from the default of 1 to 2 makes the fonts too big. > > So, is there any strategy for HiDPI with Debian? Is a BTS tag needed to > track such issues perhaps? Or is it already dealt with in unstable and > people just have to wait for it?
I have a similar experience with a 2560x1440 14" screen (210 DPI). Using a scale factor of 2 would make it act like a 720p screen, making everything far too large. However, I find that GNOME's font-based scaling works fine for me: in gnome-tweak-tool, I changed Fonts -> Scaling Factor to 1.4. That also sets the X property Xft.dpi to 144 (see xrdb -query), which many non-GNOME programs look at too. Firefox doesn't, but it has its own setting that even supports non-integer scaling of the entire UI, so I changed its layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to 1.4 as well. This handles the majority of programs I use. A few notable exceptions: gitk scales up some but not all of its fonts (reported as a bug), Celestia's and stellarium's in-rendering text (reported as bugs), old X utilities like xcalc/xconsole/xedit/xdvi/xmag/xman/xmessage (not really worth reporting, better to replace them with modern tools), and anything that relies heavily on toolbars like gimp/inkscape/audacity (tools and other UI elements not scaled up, since they don't use text; unfortunate but expected, as they don't have non-integer scaling). - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150809011134.GA22883@x