On Tue, Apr 04, 2017 at 11:05:16AM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet wrote: > On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Samuel Hentschel <hentsche...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > I have terrible vision and I just got a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen3 > > specifically for Qubes. Its got WQHD and everything is *tiny*. I > > have played with the DPI and with font sizes and can't seem to get it > > right. What is the best way to get the font sizes larger in AppVMs? > > First, I'd recommend decreasing your overall screen resolution in > dom0. If you don't want tiny text anyway, it's friendlier on battery > life to have less pixels rendered in AppVMs anyway since AppVM > contents are all rendered by the CPU (no GPU access in domU for > security reasons). In my experience this will also improve your > performance when watching videos as well.
This really helped! I hadn't thought to turn down the resolution, all I did was play with the DPI and font sizes. After turning down the resolution I ended up getting the graphics *basically* perfect. Thanks JPO. > > Also, I tried to open up a DispVM and nothing came up. Qubes says > > that its tarting one up, but nothing ever shows up. What am I doing > > wrong? > > No idea. There are many possible reasons and you haven't given much > information to help us guess. I played with it for a bit longer and it all of a sudden started working. Now I've got everything using DispVMs. > > Finally, how should I go about sending in an HCL? I was going to try > > and put all the features of Qubes in (including AEM) and was > > interested in helping the community grow. > > See https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/hcl/#generating-and-submitting-new-reports Perfect, I'll get all that set up and get a report in! Again, thanks for the help! Can't wait to get rolling on this OS! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/CAOYe3UN7PyLGCSbTTC6BAMR4bdMu9WePm7MJkDpyO%3DFTKoff_Q%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
