On Friday, June 23, 2017 at 10:51:17 AM UTC-4, David Nogueira wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have been struggling to find a good way to use my 4k display. For context, 
> I have looked for setting HiDPI, am aware of 
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1951 and others, but at least 
> for now I see HiDPI as a half solution.
> 
> I don't care about my full screen resolution in Qubes, so I am ok in setting 
> it to something like 1920x1080, the issue is I am not being able to. Since 
> the only mode available in xrandr is 3840x2160 I am forced to add a new mode.
> 
> I ran cvt 1920 1080 60 in dom0, get:
> 
> Modeline "1920x1080 60.00" 173.00  1920 2048 2248 2576   1080 1083 1088 1120 
> -hsync +vsync
> 
> I --newmode and --addmode to default and when I try setting the mode:
> 
> xrandr --verbose --output default --mode 1920x1080_60.00
> xrandr: Failed to get size of gamma for output default
> crtc 0: disable
> screen 0: 1920x1080 508x286 mm  95.92dpi
> crtc 0: 1920x1080_60.00  59.96 +0+0 "default"
> xrandr: Configure crtc 0 failed
> crtc 0: disable
> screen 0: revert
> crtc 0: revert
> 
> I have tried a few things, ran out of ideas, sorry if this is a bit too basic 
> but am a bit stuck.
> 
> Best.
> David

When I had ArchLinux on my Thinkpad, I found out that Gnome had at least 3 
different UX frameworks that needed scaling (built-in, GTK and Qt).  Each one 
had their own setting files.  

R3.2 uses Xfce.  I believe apps continue to use GTK and Qt though.  So I would 
start there (each has their own scaling properties).  

I couldn't stand Qubes and Xfce and basically back to my beloved i3wm tiling 
manager when I installed Qubes (it gave me a nice excuse to go back to i3 after 
I left i3 for Gnome's latest touchscreen goodies and eye candy).

With i3wm, it's easy to scale the fonts in the config file however i like.  I 
spend 96.21% of my time in terminals any ways.

GTK and Qt apps still need to be scaled.  I used some of the Xfce user settings 
apps to do it and it seemed to handle most of the windows I care about anyways. 
 Only thing left was Chromium and Tor Browser (I have yet to find a good way to 
scale Tor Browser bundle).

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