Ankur Sinha composed on 2016-05-10 13:12 (UTC+0100):
I just had an email from someone that installed F23 on a box with an hidpi screen. Apparently, even using the window scaling etc doesn't quite "make it look OK" - has anyone tried F24 with one of these screens? Is it any better?
HiDPI can be simulated with any ordinary display, by forcing DPI to any arbitrary value, enabling panning to a framebuffer size that corresponds to the resolution of the screen you want to simulate, then increasing the distance between your face and the display. Either xorg.conf* or xrandr can work equally well at least in theory, but you may find one or the other vexing due to various server or driver bugs[1], and need to use the other. Because of panning, you can't see the whole screen at once, but you can get a decent idea of what the complaints are about. For this simulation to work, the DE's screen controls, e.g. krandr and/or kscreen in KDE, needs to be disabled, so that the countermand of the server's 96 DPI forcing is respected rather than disregarded.
[1] e.g. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77321 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90842 https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94403 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
