Ben: > Would you volunteer for early testing of windowing driven from Image side > of headless-VM ?
Yeah I would love to help test this. However, there's a good chance I'm going to return this new laptop for its lower resolution variant (I have a System76 Galago Pro). The HiDPI situation in Linux is, for the moment, not especially great. Some if it has to do with the whole X vs Wayland (vs NVIDIA) fiasco. But other than that, this is definitely something I'd be willing to help out with. Tim: > Eric - I had the same feeling a few years ago when I got a retina laptop > and found Pharo a bit fuzzy on the eyes (although it’s true that with time > you start to notice it less) > I think Apple has some secret sauce when dealing with scaling across different applications on their Retina displays. Xorg and friends do not have this magic on the Linux side. On a 3k 13/14inch screen, without switching my monitors resolution down in the settings, Pharo is downright microscopic (I don't have my new laptop with me otherwise I'd post a screenshot). The only way to deal with this is to completely switch my resolution and scaling factors at the system settings level every time I want to use Pharo. For other applications this might involve a restart, too, which is no bueno. The GToolkit stuff is promising and I had been waiting for this Bloc-in-external-window capability. With regard to the HiDPI stuff, it doesn't make a difference on Linux -- it's just as "small" as anything in the main Morphic window. Again, I think this is because Apple (maybe Windows too?) has more control over their whole graphics stack and can perform some kind of magic to deal with scaling across applications. Thanks for the replies, all.
