Thanks for the advice. I also have my font DPI currently set to 144. If I set just font DPI without scaling turned on, windows and tool bar icons don't look right.
On 21 September 2016 at 00:38, Thom Castermans <[email protected]> wrote: > Some time ago I got a laptop with a 4k display. I am not using that one > with > external monitors, but I still may be able to help a bit. With earlier > versions > of Plasma, scaling was pretty much not working. I was looking at tiny text > all > the time. > > This changed at some point - I think when Plasma 5.6 rolled around, but > not > exactly sure. Anyway, what I did was switching my scaling (System Settings > > > Display and Monitor > Display Configuration > Scale Display) back to 1, so > not > scaling up. On the other hand I set my font DPI (System Settings > Font > > Fonts > > Force fonts DPI) to 96 (after ticking the box of course). Since that > version > of Plasma, all interfaces appear to scale nicely in response to this. > Firefox > and Chrome apparently respect that setting too (although I may have played > around a bit with settings there, cannot remember). > > Hopefully, the fonts DPI works across displays, given that Plasma knows > the DPI > of the monitor...? > > Thom > > > 2016-09-21 1:42 GMT+02:00 Rubin Abdi <[email protected]>: > >> I recently switched to an X1 Carbon 4th gen with the nicer HIDPI display. >> Sadly the rest of the desktop displays I plug into are still the old >> density. I noticed recently in 5.7.4 that most Qt based applications will >> do some notion of font DPI re-rendering when a window moves from one >> display to another, which is a step in the right direction though I wish >> there were some more exposed settings to specify which scaling factors for >> each monitor independently. >> >> Konsole has sadly stopped displaying the bitmap font Terminus properly on >> the HIDPI display (the letters look squished and the kerning is horrible), >> however when it pops onto my desktop display it looks fine. Using any other >> normal truetype or openfont causes 1px wide horizontal and vertical lines >> to get cut through the window displaying whatever is under it whenever >> there's a bunch of text that scrolls by or if I highlight text. >> >> Chrome (Chromium) thankfully respects my KDE global scale factor of 1.5, >> however it absolutely doesn't care about this new behavior of rescaling >> when the window moves between one display to another. It's been driving me >> mad to the point where I'm now saving up for a new 4k monitor just so I >> don't have to deal with this issue anymore. >> >> Anyone have some good tricks dealing with these issues? >> >> -- >> Rubin >> [email protected] >> > > -- Rubin [email protected]
