On 2026-01-08 15:31:21 -0500, Jeremy Bícha wrote: > On Thu, Jan 8, 2026 at 4:05 AM Vincent Lefevre <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2026-01-07 16:32:29 +0100, Matthias Geiger wrote: > > > As mentioned in our 2020 MBF [4], besides being unmaintained for years, > > > GTK 2 does not support either HiDPI or native Wayland. > > > > This is simply not true for HiDPI: gkrellm works fine on a HiDPI screen. > > It would be bad to remove gkrellm if it cannot be ported to GTK 3 or > > higher, while it actually works without any issue, AFAIK. And not > > everyone uses Wayland. > > More specifically, GTK2 apps (including gkrellm) don't seem to be able > support fractional scaling (125% for instance) as is possible with > GTK3 apps in a GNOME on Wayland session. A workaround is to use Font > Scaling with the GNOME Tweaks app. That doesn't work for gkrellm but > it works for only the text in other GTK2 apps.
GKrellM is highly configurable. For the fonts, one can choose the font sizes for large, normal, and small fonts directly. There is no need for scaling (GTK2 uses FontConfig, which is already flexible enough). And the width of the window is chosen by the user. I don't see what is missing. For me, it works perfectly with both non-HiDPI and HiDPI screens (including the 4K 15" screen of my laptop). -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Pascaline project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
