On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Peter Laursen <jazcyk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am in the process of buying a laptop for travel. it should be 13"-14". > relatively small and lightweight - and still with *power*. > > I came across: > https://www.mm-vision.dk/vision-b4385-baerbar-med-ips-panel. They have the > option to purchase with no OS installed (hooray!) and you can choose between > different CPUs, RAM configs and disk systems. It is also not very expensive > specs taken into consideration, really. > > But monitor is 3200x1800 pixels on a 13" monitor. And that is the problem. > This machine is designed for Win8, where the 'tiled interface' is DPI-aware > and will scale automatically. I plan to install a dual-boot of Win7 and > Linux (SuSE or Fedora), and they will both be completely hopeless to use on > this system as everything (icons, controls) will be extremely small in > almost every interface and application. You said in a different email that you use XFCE. That might be your problem. I have two laptops with high resolution monitors and GNOME 3 scales things very well. F21 even more than F20, which was already quite usable. > I dont think Linux Desktop people takes this seriously enough (or they do > not communicate it). It will IMO take ~12 months and most laptops sold will HiDPI support has been touted as a feature in Fedora for the past two releases. For F21 it's explicitly listed as one for Workstation: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_release_announcement#Support_for_high_resolution_displays_.28HiDPI.29 > Are there any efforts anywhere in the Linux world considering support for > high monitor resolutions (auto-scaling based on DPI) like Mac/Retina and > Win8 has? What Linux desktops/window managers have it in progress? Does > anybody know? GNOME and I believe KDE both are working on this continually. Both are already very usable. I have no idea what XFCE is doing, nor any of the other desktop environments. > What say? Was it too provocative? Maybe just misinformed. Try GNOME or KDE? josh -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
