Re: Gnome with high resolution display (4k, 27 inch)

2016-09-24 Thread Paul Davis
On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 10:34 PM, Michael Torrie wrote: > > Hopefully someone can enlighten me as to why after years of hearing > about the promise of vector graphics allowing arbitrary and beautiful > scaling of our user interfaces, we are stuck with this HiDPI kludge and >

Re: Gnome with high resolution display (4k, 27 inch)

2016-09-24 Thread Michael Torrie
On 09/23/2016 05:30 AM, Andrea Giammarchi wrote: > Thanks for sharing your findings, I've updated archibold.io page with this > info. > > Not sure we should file a bug in tweak tool project, I'll try to > investigate how/where but hopefully they are reading this ML too. I've always wondered why

Re: Gnome with high resolution display (4k, 27 inch)

2016-09-23 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
Thanks for sharing your findings, I've updated archibold.io page with this info. Not sure we should file a bug in tweak tool project, I'll try to investigate how/where but hopefully they are reading this ML too. Best Regards On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 11:41 AM, Stefan Salewski

Re: Gnome with high resolution display (4k, 27 inch)

2016-09-23 Thread Stefan Salewski
Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2016, 20:28 +0200 schrieb Stefan Salewski: > Generally not too bad, Ah,main problem solved! http://robert.ocallahan.org/2016/04/gnome-hidpi-issues.html So gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2 is not really identical to setting scaling in tweak

Re: Gnome with high resolution display (4k, 27 inch)

2016-09-23 Thread Stefan Salewski
Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2016, 20:08 +0100 schrieb Andrea Giammarchi: > On GNOME on ArchLinux for years now Well, author Michael Kofler has reported is his test of Gnome 3.18 exactly my observations, unfortunately only in german language:

Re: Gnome with high resolution display (4k, 27 inch)

2016-09-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
well, the tweak window scaling should be permanent. If that doesn't work, you can add at the bottom of your `~/.bashrc` file and see if that works. Although if the profile is handled by GDM or others maybe there's a way to config exports for these DM somehow but like I've said, on ArchLinux GNOME

Re: Gnome with high resolution display (4k, 27 inch)

2016-09-22 Thread Stefan Salewski
Am Donnerstag, den 22.09.2016, 20:08 +0100 schrieb Andrea Giammarchi: > Alternatively, you might try what's suggested in ArchLinux Wiki: Yes, I found the ArchLinux tipps already. export GDK_SCALE=2 seems to be the same as the window scaling in tweak tool, and that scales the windows by factor

Re: Gnome with high resolution display (4k, 27 inch)

2016-09-22 Thread Andrea Giammarchi
On GNOME on ArchLinux for years now, on HiDPi since Dell XPS (early 2015) without problems at all. I don't remember which GNOME it had by that time, but it was looking gorgeous (and still does, looking forward to try 3.22). However, I guess it's a matter of pixel density. If you have node tweak