On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 06:54:53PM -0400, Dan Espen wrote: > Recently I went from a 1600x1200 monitor to a 3840x2160 monitor. > > Fvwm was the least of my problems.
Same here. Mind you, even on laptops with 4K screens (so-called HiDPI), the situation is diabolical. X11 really doesn't work seamlessly in these conditions. I've resorted to all sorts of xrandr --dpi tricks without much success. Even if you do manage to get some scaling working, you're still left with the various widget libraries playing nicely with different applications. For example, on this laptop which has: % xdpyinfo | grep dimensions dimensions: 3840x2160 pixels (1016x571 millimeters) Firefox looks fine now that I've wrangled everything, but menus, buttons and other widgets are so small I can't even see what I'm clicking on half the time. Messing with GDK_SCALE env var and others helps, but it's still not great. It's a shame that outside of larger DEs like GNOME where this is all integrated, X11 and widget libraries just fall apart. I'm not sure what the best solution is to address this, but something needs to be done since it's dire. > An old config should work pretty well. > Mine was born in 1996 and is pretty much the same as it was then, > except that I changed to a more modern font syntax a pretty long time > ago. Hear hear! -- Thomas
