What’s the current state of Linux support for high dpi screens? As of two years ago I had some issues with getting things to work right in KDE, especially with GTK apps, by manually fiddling with system font sizes and button sizes, before I ended up donating that laptop to someone else.
flightyhobler@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Who changes resolution away from the screen’s native values instead of changing the DPI values?
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
BullishUtensil@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I still run a fairly old dell laptop with 4k screen, and fedora 41.
My experience is that i needed to set dpi, scaling, and font sizes separately for kde and gnome apps, Firefox is a story in itself, and one app that I quickly stopped using - partly because I could never get it to listen to dpi settings no matter what I did - well, I recently learned that it could be used on a 4k monitor if one first were to set the right environmental variable. Tough luck, I already went with a replacement app.
Right now I only have one app that needs further custom tweaking to be legible, but since that’s only running in the background anyway, I haven’t bothered. So in short, for most apps it’s possible to configure them, but it is a pain point.
Will not buy another 4k laptop.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, Firefox in particular gave me the most issues.
Configuring each app separately is also annoying.
And I definitely never got things to work on an external monitor that was a different DPI from my laptop screen. I wish I had the time or expertise to be able to contribute, but in the meantime I’m left hoping that the Wayland and DE devs find a solution.
MetalMachine@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
1440p screen with x11 and wayland works just fine on KDE. Wayland is much better and more performant. Not sure about even higher res.
flightyhobler@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
No clue. I always used very old 1080p (or less) screens. I guess I was just lucky that way 🤣
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
I mean, that’s basically the author’s problem, then. I suspect the software support just isn’t there for the hardware that ships on this particular laptop, to where it’s easiest to manually put it in some blurry non native resolution, as the least crappy solution.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Maybe they are still using an old school (X11?) DE?
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
echo “Xft.dpi: 210” >> ~/.Xresources
nekusoul@lemmy.nekusoul.de 4 weeks ago
And they switched to a resolution one that can’t even Integer-scale, and, even worse, isn’t even the correct aspect ratio.
Personally, I’ve seen a few people doing similar things, and to me it’s always an indicator that the person needs to get their eyes checked. Any person with good eye sight or well adjusted glasses should immediately notice that the text actually becomes blurrier and harder to read despite the increased text size.