Re: HIDPI insanity
Thanks for the advice. I also have my font DPI currently set to 144. If I set just font DPI without scaling turned on, windows and tool bar icons don't look right. On 21 September 2016 at 00:38, Thom Castermans wrote: > Some time ago I got a laptop with a 4k display. I am not using that one > with > external monitors, but I still may be able to help a bit. With earlier > versions > of Plasma, scaling was pretty much not working. I was looking at tiny text > all > the time. > > This changed at some point - I think when Plasma 5.6 rolled around, but > not > exactly sure. Anyway, what I did was switching my scaling (System Settings > > > Display and Monitor > Display Configuration > Scale Display) back to 1, so > not > scaling up. On the other hand I set my font DPI (System Settings > Font > > Fonts > > Force fonts DPI) to 96 (after ticking the box of course). Since that > version > of Plasma, all interfaces appear to scale nicely in response to this. > Firefox > and Chrome apparently respect that setting too (although I may have played > around a bit with settings there, cannot remember). > > Hopefully, the fonts DPI works across displays, given that Plasma knows > the DPI > of the monitor...? > > Thom > > > 2016-09-21 1:42 GMT+02:00 Rubin Abdi : > >> I recently switched to an X1 Carbon 4th gen with the nicer HIDPI display. >> Sadly the rest of the desktop displays I plug into are still the old >> density. I noticed recently in 5.7.4 that most Qt based applications will >> do some notion of font DPI re-rendering when a window moves from one >> display to another, which is a step in the right direction though I wish >> there were some more exposed settings to specify which scaling factors for >> each monitor independently. >> >> Konsole has sadly stopped displaying the bitmap font Terminus properly on >> the HIDPI display (the letters look squished and the kerning is horrible), >> however when it pops onto my desktop display it looks fine. Using any other >> normal truetype or openfont causes 1px wide horizontal and vertical lines >> to get cut through the window displaying whatever is under it whenever >> there's a bunch of text that scrolls by or if I highlight text. >> >> Chrome (Chromium) thankfully respects my KDE global scale factor of 1.5, >> however it absolutely doesn't care about this new behavior of rescaling >> when the window moves between one display to another. It's been driving me >> mad to the point where I'm now saving up for a new 4k monitor just so I >> don't have to deal with this issue anymore. >> >> Anyone have some good tricks dealing with these issues? >> >> -- >> Rubin >> ru...@starset.net >> > > -- Rubin ru...@starset.net
Re: HIDPI insanity
On Wednesday 21 September 2016, Rubin Abdi wrote: > I recently switched to an X1 Carbon 4th gen with the nicer HIDPI display. > Sadly the rest of the desktop displays I plug into are still the old > density. I noticed recently in 5.7.4 that most Qt based applications will > do some notion of font DPI re-rendering when a window moves from one > display to another, which is a step in the right direction though I wish > there were some more exposed settings to specify which scaling factors for > each monitor independently. > See http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/highdpi.html and QT_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTORS for instance. A UI application for that would be nice though. Not sure if there are C++ APIs for it, if there aren't, just propose an API and open a bug on it. Best regards `Allan
Re: HIDPI insanity
Some time ago I got a laptop with a 4k display. I am not using that one with external monitors, but I still may be able to help a bit. With earlier versions of Plasma, scaling was pretty much not working. I was looking at tiny text all the time. This changed at some point - I think when Plasma 5.6 rolled around, but not exactly sure. Anyway, what I did was switching my scaling (System Settings > Display and Monitor > Display Configuration > Scale Display) back to 1, so not scaling up. On the other hand I set my font DPI (System Settings > Font > Fonts > Force fonts DPI) to 96 (after ticking the box of course). Since that version of Plasma, all interfaces appear to scale nicely in response to this. Firefox and Chrome apparently respect that setting too (although I may have played around a bit with settings there, cannot remember). Hopefully, the fonts DPI works across displays, given that Plasma knows the DPI of the monitor...? Thom 2016-09-21 1:42 GMT+02:00 Rubin Abdi : > I recently switched to an X1 Carbon 4th gen with the nicer HIDPI display. > Sadly the rest of the desktop displays I plug into are still the old > density. I noticed recently in 5.7.4 that most Qt based applications will > do some notion of font DPI re-rendering when a window moves from one > display to another, which is a step in the right direction though I wish > there were some more exposed settings to specify which scaling factors for > each monitor independently. > > Konsole has sadly stopped displaying the bitmap font Terminus properly on > the HIDPI display (the letters look squished and the kerning is horrible), > however when it pops onto my desktop display it looks fine. Using any other > normal truetype or openfont causes 1px wide horizontal and vertical lines > to get cut through the window displaying whatever is under it whenever > there's a bunch of text that scrolls by or if I highlight text. > > Chrome (Chromium) thankfully respects my KDE global scale factor of 1.5, > however it absolutely doesn't care about this new behavior of rescaling > when the window moves between one display to another. It's been driving me > mad to the point where I'm now saving up for a new 4k monitor just so I > don't have to deal with this issue anymore. > > Anyone have some good tricks dealing with these issues? > > -- > Rubin > ru...@starset.net >
