On Sunday, October 28, 2018 at 10:20:44 AM UTC-5, Achim Patzner wrote: > Hi! > > As I'm trying to set up a Lenovo P52 with HiDPI display (and external > nVidia GPU -- don't buy one without right now) I'm close to getting rid > of it completely and install Windows on it... > > 1) Xfce is not bringing in a single HiDPI theme and the window > decorations are looking extremely awful unless you find one of the > scarce themes adapted for this. It would be nice to have at least one > Theme suitable for an environment like this n the standard distribution. > At least it is xfce -- setting resolution (and some other things) in > .Xresources (or the default file in /etc) is solving the worst problems > easily. > > 2) The Fedora VMs delivered with Qubes right now are still fully Gnome > based, so just copying an appropriate Xresources is not sufficient > (luckily someone created an fc28-xfce template VM; could we please have > that as part of the standard distribution?) and one has to jump through > hoops to set up the template correctly. > > Could whoever is doing the VM startup scripts right now (still Marek?) > consider expanding the X setup scripting to not only getting the screen > size in pixels into the virtual X server but also the correct resolution > and add a very late script that will, independently of the virtual > session manager, move a copy of the X resource db data from Dom0 into > the VM (in the current fedora template this is messed up by > gsd-xsettings which is merrily overwriting what came from Xresources via > xinitrc). > > Petition: Take the developers' Lenovo laptops and replace them with > generation 6 HiDPI X1 (and to completely annoy kernel developers they > have to be using P52 or similar systems). > > > Achim
I feel this situation would get better once Xfce finishes their GTK3 porting. They are at 80% right now and GTK3 supports HiDPI natively and then Qubes will need help porting their Window decoration system to the new interface if required (I haven't looked at it yet). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/3800f79e-2e58-4f48-8868-f713384f0571%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
