Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue
On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 02:24:17PM +0400, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box).
>
> Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]:
> I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to
> a retina box: it appears, unfortunately, that Xfce support for HiDPI is low.
> small (if not tiny) icons there, big fonts here; and so forth.
> I have tried to fix it to stick to Xfce; after all Xfce is lightweight.
> But the issue is that X is not yet ready to manage HiDPI properly:
> a lot of tweaks are needed to get something almost readable.
I only found three tweaks needed for XFCE:
1. Change the DPI setting upwards.
2. Increase the size of the panel bars.
3. Select a theme that scales title bars and buttons with the
size of the font.
-dsr-
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