Thanks for your reply. On 25/12/17 00:05, Dan Ritter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:24:17PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote: >> Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). >> >> Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: >> I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to >> a retina box: it appears, unfortunately, that Xfce support for HiDPI is low. >> small (if not tiny) icons there, big fonts here; and so forth. >> I have tried to fix it to stick to Xfce; after all Xfce is lightweight. >> But the issue is that X is not yet ready to manage HiDPI properly: >> a lot of tweaks are needed to get something almost readable. > > I only found three tweaks needed for XFCE: > > 1. Change the DPI setting upwards.
tried: xdpyinfo now gives the expected resolution (220 dpi) and screen dimension. Nevertheless, in the /v/l/Xorg.0.log, DIP is still set to 96 . > 2. Increase the size of the panel bars. done > 3. Select a theme that scales title bars and buttons with the > size of the font. I switched to the Default-hdpi style. BTW, is there any list of HiDPI compatible theme ? I also managed to get readable fonts for my xterm consoles, and gvim. So far, I could not fix the size of the button/icons for gvim and evince: any hint ? Thanks, Jerome > > -dsr- >