>>> My laptop's 13" screen has a native resolution of 3200x1800 which
>>> makes everything crazy small on-screen.  Is there a good method for
>>> telling Xorg or xfce4 to compensate, or should I one-at-a-time my
>>> applications?
>>
>> Depends on your desktop. I'm not sure if XFCE supports this, but in KDE
>> everything scales to my monitor's DPI automatically.
>>
>> What is the output of:
>>
>>   xdpyinfo | grep -i resolution
>>
>> (The utility is in the x11-apps/xdpyinfo package.)
>>
>> On such a small screen, the result should be a very high DPI (around 282.)
>> If that's not the number you get, then your graphics driver is reporting it
>> wrong to Xorg, and you need to set it manually.
>
>
> This led me to the DisplaySize parameter for xorg.conf which helps a lot.
>
> Thanks,
> Grant


Is there a way to digitally discover the true height and width of your
screen in mm?

- Grant

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