Re: [PATCH 0/2] XDG basedir bin dirs

2017-08-30 Thread rhkramer
On Tuesday, August 29, 2017 12:42:01 PM Johannes Löthberg wrote: > The second patch adds XDG_BIN_HOME and XDG_BIN_DIRS to the basedir spec, > standardizing ~/.local/bin as the default user-specific bin directory. I didn't look at the patches (sorry), but I'll comment anyway--as long as it is just

Re: Current state of DPI settings under X

2017-08-30 Thread Vladimir Kudrya
I was happy with 96 DPI everywhere until I bought new laptop that jam-packed 1920x1080 into 13.3" screen. Jumping between 24" and 13.3" displays 2-3 times a day suddenly became a pain. Getting back to ways of configuring DPI: After some more digging I found that fontconfig falls back to xrdb

Re: Current state of DPI settings under X

2017-08-30 Thread Keith Packard
Thiago Macieira writes: > I'm currently running at 216 DPI and I don't have any application > misbehaving, > not even the ones that don't support scaling up icons, margins, etc. I've left my X setting at 96 but run the 'fonts' configuration at 150 and have firefox set to double its layout. I c

Fwd: why not XDG_PREFIX_HOME

2017-08-30 Thread Marc Boocha
Instead having an XDG_BIN_HOME, XDG_CONFIG_HOME, XDG_DATA_HOME, we should have a single XDG_PREFIX_HOME. This will be located as ~/.local. Since make install or package manger normal produce these directories, have separate environmental variables is not needed. XDG_BIN_HOME is equivalent to XDG_P

Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] basedir: Add XDG_BIN_HOME

2017-08-30 Thread Lennart Poettering
On Di, 29.08.17 13:20, Josh Triplett (j...@joshtriplett.org) wrote: > On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 07:27:50PM +0200, Johannes Löthberg wrote: > > --- > > Dropped XDG_BIN_DIRS and add note about architecture-specificity of HOME > > due to XDG_BIN_HOME. > > This version of the proposal looks great to m