On Wed, 19 Jun 2019 14:19:52 +0100 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said:
> On 18/06/2019 08:29, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 22:27:46 +0100 Peter Flynn <pe...@silmaril.ie> said: > [...] > >> Thank you. Unfortunately that doesn't cover my immediate problem, which > >> is that my new machine has a very high-resolution screen, so normal > >> application windows are microscopically tiny, even with the e scale set > >> to 2.2. It would need to be about 5 to work properly. > >> > >> Setting the default fonts has no effect: the window furniture components > >> of (eg Thunderbird, Chromium, Emacs etc) are unreadably small and resist > >> all attempts to invoke larger fonts. > >> > >> The application *body fonts* can be set within each app OK (eg Tbird's > >> message window, Chromium's document body, and Emacs' buffers) — it's the > >> menus (and in Tbird's case, folder and message nav panes) which remain > >> small. > > > > enlightenment doesn't address other toolkits or how they want to scale. it > > sets its own scaling and this also affects efl apps that use elementary. > > the rest is an issue for gtk, qt, and chrome itself, libreoffice, firefox > > etc. - apps that do their own toolkits. we have no code to go swizzling > > these other toolkits or apps etc. > > Right. But something in E must be preventing these applications from > using the font sizes I have set in them. I changed their settings while > using them under E, and they had no effect (that in itself is wrong), so > when I logged out and logged into a Cinnamon job, I get this: E doesn't do anything really - though it can run a settings daemon - "enable application x settings" under application theme settings... we don't really pay much attention to that atm. > http://silmaril.ie/screenshots/emptyscreen-cinnamon.png > http://silmaril.ie/screenshots/chromium-cinnamon.png > http://silmaril.ie/screenshots/thunderbird-cinnamon.png > > So they *have* taken effect, but when I log out and back into E, the > settings are not in effect. Something is preventing the apps from using > the settings: > > http://silmaril.ie/screenshots/enlightenment.png > > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI > > It says Cinnamon supports hi-res laptop screens, which it does, and it > also works with the apps run within it. > > It says in E to use Look > Scaling, which I have tried, but that of > course only affects the E interface itself, not any apps. It also works > backwards, so for the very hi-res screen I have had to set "Scale > relative to screen DPI" to a base value of 48dpi in order to make things > readable. > > > look at the toolkits section, browsers etc. > > No, there is no point in you wasting your valuable time messing with > other people's settings. Unfortunately this makes E completely unusable > on very high resolution screens for normal everyday work in third-party > applications. > > Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - ras...@rasterman.com _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
