On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 12:26:18PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:See my 1st message to this thread.Joey, With respect to your question re HiDPI displays and Xfce, I'm using Xfce4 from Debian Testing on a Lenovo T540p with 3k screen, and setting things up was fairly straight forward. I got most of what I needed by setting Custom DPI Setting in Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts -> DPI.
The main pain point that I've had is that Google Chrome doesn't support HiDPI very well. I've manually adjusted the zoom level which mostly compensates almost everything except the buttons on the toolbar, but that's a problem which is independent of the desktop environment, and won't be fixed until Aura support for Linux arrives[1]. [1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=143619 So that's my experience with Xfce and HiDPI displays; at least for this hacker, it was orders of magnitude less painful than dealing with GNOME. :-)
Cheers, - Ted