r.green@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > The way to configure HiDPI font and icon scaling in KDE has changed at > least a couple of times: (Note: Some programs, such as Chromium and Java, > ignore all these settings and have to be configured independently.) > > 1. In the original implementation of HiDPI support for KDE, as documented > in blog posts by KDE developer David Edmundson, it was necessary to set > both "force font DPI" - for fonts - and "scale display" - for everything > else. > > 2. In January when I first installed Fedora 23, setting both "force font > DPI" and "scale display" produced unexpected results - I eventually > figured out that in fact, it worked much better if I just set "scale > display" to 2. > > 3. I've since changed jobs and installed Fedora 23 on a new laptop, and > with all the updates installed, it's again necessary to set both "force > font DPI" and "scale display" for everything to be legible without > squinting. But this it's undesirable to set both, because now with both > set, most KDE applications have huge fonts. Non-KDE applications like > Thunderbird look OK though. > > Some possible clues as to why this has changed again: > > Clue 1: If I leave "force font DPI" unset, it's actually set to 0 in a > config file, and the fonts are really tiny, suggesting that 0 is being > interpreted as "very small". > > Clue 2: I now get these messages when I run a KDE application from a > konsole: > > Warning: QT_DEVICE_PIXEL_RATIO is deprecated. Instead use: > QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR to enable platform plugin controlled > per-screen factors. QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS to set per-screen factors. > QT_SCALE_FACTOR to set the application global scale factor. > > So I'm guessing that Qt has been upgraded to a newer version, but KDE > hasn't been updated to take account of the changes mentioned above. > > Since they are environment variables, it looks like I can set them myself > without needing to wait for KDE to be fixed. So how should I set them? > where/how are you setting these variables? _______________________________________________ kde mailing list kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
