On 2018-02-28, Dominic Knight <dominickni...@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 06:50 -0500, songbird wrote:
>>
>> the only real negatives of the newer monitor is
>> that the scaling of fonts/menus/window sizes is set
>> so small and not easily adjustable in the program
>> itself that i have to change my monitor screen size
>> in order to be able to read the menu items or see
>> what is going on. not everything pays attention to
>> system font settings.
>>
>>
>> songbird
>>
>
> Maybe upscaling would help a lot here, it does when I output on hdmi,
> with Mate that's
> System - Preferences - look and feel - appearance
> then
> fonts - detail - resolution
> I set mine to around 144 and leave system fonts the same and then the
> vast majority of programs will respect that and be of a readable size
> at high monitor resolution.
>
> I guess with other desktops you could set it easily enough in an
> .Xresources file that runs on entering X-server
>
> You will of course find occasional programs that completely ignore
> this.
>
> Cheers,
> Dom.
>
>
Those misbehaving programs are probably getting their DPI information
from the X server directly. If you start X with the '-dpi 144' switch
then you should get consistent behaviour.
For example:
startx -- -dpi 144
--
Liam
