Joe Gidi writes: > > Picked up a 4K display (LG 27UPS650) and it's gorgeous. Bright colors, > > crisp, lovely. The console fonts and some application fonts are now > > dialed in WRT size. > > > > But application menu bars have tiny icons and tiny titles, and their > > man pages don't address that. Do those settings live in libraries I'm > > not used to tweaking? > > > > -- > > > > Edward Ahlsen-Girard > > Ft Walton Beach, FL > > Hi Ed, > > The Arch Linux Wiki page on HiDPI is a good resource for this: > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI > > Personally, I am using the following settings in my .Xresources file to > scale things to a usable size and get a mouse pointer I can actually see > (I'm using a 4k 27" display as well): > > Xft.dpi: 144 > Xcursor.size: 32 > Xcursor.theme: Adwaita
This "problem" is proving quite entertaining on a ~13" laptop. I don't use that machine for much so I mostly ignore it (it helps that it has a touch screen that "just works") but the issue on other (much larger) 4K screens driven by OpenBSD has been resolved with a simple application of xrandr's --scale option. Going from memory, the invocation is something like "xrandr --output <monitor> --scale <rate>" where a rate of 0.5 or 0.666 has proven most effective. Older window managers will need to be reloaded/restarted after xrandr changes. I don't know if this is the "right" solution but then again I don't know if a right solution can ever include X. Matthew
