On 14/10/16 08:32, Daniel Svensson wrote: > Hi, > While HiDPI works a lot better nowadays, there are still some parts > that needs a bit more polish. I use a ThinkPad X1 Carbon 4th gen, with > a 1440p 14" screen which gives about 210 PPI. To get reasonable UI > that isn't too big or too small I use Window scaling of 1, and a > Scaling Factor of 0.5, with fonts in Gnome, Emacs and RXVT set to > 16px. > > When I get to work and connect my Dell 28" 3840x2160 monitor at about > 160 PPI, I've configured my setup to disable the laptop monitor as I > only use that external screen. What I get to now is the need-of-polish > part. The GDM login screen is now insanely tiny. I can barely read > what it says, and once logged in everything else is ofc also tiny. > > My remedy to this is to change the Scaling Factor back to 1.0, and > everything is at the expected size on the external monitor again. > > I do this every morning (0.5 -> 1.0), and every evening (1.0 -> 0.5). > It would be nice if Gnome remembered the settings per monitor basis > instead, and thus dealing with the switching on its own. > > How are other people dealing with this? > > I'm currently using Fedora 25, using Gnome 3.22. > We discussed[1] this in Debian last year and started a wiki[2] about it One key point that came out of the discussion is that it is not just a GNOME or X issue, some notable applications (e.g. Firefox[3]) also do their own thing. It would be great to track this issue across distributions and desktops, choose a strategy to resolve it and finally put it to rest. Regards, Daniel 1. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/08/msg00107.html 2. https://wiki.debian.org/MonitorDPI 3. https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/08/msg00110.html _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
