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Re: Debian with HiDPI / 4K displays



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Am 2015-08-09 um 09:22 schrieb Vincent Bernat:
> ❦  8 août 2015 18:11 -0700, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> :
> 
>> This handles the majority of programs I use.  A few notable
>> exceptions: gitk scales up some but not all of its fonts
>> (reported as a bug), Celestia's and stellarium's in-rendering
>> text (reported as bugs), old X utilities like
>> xcalc/xconsole/xedit/xdvi/xmag/xman/xmessage (not really worth
>> reporting, better to replace them with modern tools), and
>> anything that relies heavily on toolbars like
>> gimp/inkscape/audacity (tools and other UI elements not scaled
>> up, since they don't use text; unfortunate but expected, as they
>> don't have non-integer scaling).
> 
> I don't have any such problems with Gimp and Inkscape and Xft/DPI
> set to 144 (both through xrdb and XSETTINGS). All GTK apps are
> behaving correctly, notably Gimp and Inkscape. It seems GTK is
> doing complex stuff to determine the scaling to be applied, so many
> things may influence it. Other apps fail to understand how GTK
> works and try to emulate it by piling hacks together (notably
> Chromium).
> 
> I could show you at Debconf to spot a configuration difference.
> 
I am also very interested in this (at Debconf), as i own a MacBook Pro
running Jessie with no problems so far, except some very tiny
checkboxes/radiobuttons in firefox and tiny buttons in gimp/inkscape.

Is there probably a Debian/HiDPI wiki/website with information about
how to set up specific apps under specific Desktop Environments?

Simon.
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