Re: HiDPI migration: desktop environment issue

[Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltriangle@rezozer.net>]

Thanks for your reply.

On 25/12/17 00:05, Dan Ritter wrote:
> 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.

tried:
xdpyinfo now gives the expected resolution (220 dpi) and screen dimension.
Nevertheless, in the /v/l/Xorg.0.log, DIP is still set to 96 .

> 2. Increase the size of the panel bars.

done

> 3. Select a theme that scales title bars and buttons with the
>    size of the font.

I switched to the Default-hdpi style.
BTW, is there any list of HiDPI compatible theme ?

I also  managed to get readable fonts for my xterm consoles, and gvim.

So far, I could not fix the size of the button/icons for gvim and evince:
any hint ?


Thanks, Jerome


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