On Thursday 19 March 2015 13:19:43 Stephan Witt wrote: > Am 19.03.2015 um 12:32 schrieb Rudi Gaelzer <[email protected]>: > > Resuming this discussion, I've just acquired a MSI notebook with Retina > > display (2880x1620). > > Is it a Mac or a Windows gadget? If you're on Windows then this is a known > problem.
Neither. It's running Fedora 21 linux. > > Stephan > > > I changed the screen fonts sizes and set the Instant Preview size to the > > factor 1.8. With these modifications, I can read what's on the screen > > fairly well. > > However, the icons are still too small, even when I use Big-sized icons. > > Is there a way to make a further increase in the size of the icons? > > Thanks. > > > > On Wednesday 14 January 2015 11:39:38 Chris Menzel wrote: > >> Thank you for posting that screenshot, Stephan. However, I believe I'm > >> getting much better resolution than in your screenshot (under Lyx > >> 2.1.2.2) > >> on both my rMPB and my retina iMac by scaling up the resolution to the > >> next > >> higher setting above the default (on the iMac, the Displays preference > >> pane > >> calls it "2880x1620", but of course with the far higher retina pixel > >> density) and using MinionPro as the screen font: > >> http://cmenzel.org/LyX-screenshot.pdf. To my eyes, the scaled up setting > >> has no effect on the quality of the display in other programs (though you > >> might want to use larger fonts than you would with the default setting). > >> Others screen fonts that (unlike MinionPro) are part of the MacTeX 2014 > >> distribution, e.g., Palatino, seem to me to look almost as good. > >> > >> -chris -- Rudi Gaelzer Institute of Physics Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul BRAZIL Registered Linux user # 153741
