High-DPI displays and Linux
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High-DPI displays and Linux
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Re: High-DPI displays and Linux
#2Because the article mentions that Chromium doesnt have HighDPI support right now: You can actually compile it with the -Denable_hidpi=1 flag which at least displays most web sites in the right way though the menu/navigation is broken (which is probably the main reason it isnt enabled by default).
Re: High-DPI displays and Linux
#3Firefox on Linux currently doesn't support a mixture of HiDPI and non-HiDPI monitors, it has a single DPI setting. I think it will be supported when this [1] bug is resolved.
Shameless plug: I have written an addon to workaround this [2].
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975919
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autohidpi/
Re: High-DPI displays and Linux
#4My 11 inch asus laptop has a full hd display. So it's somewhere in the middle.
Gnome's hidpi support doesn't allow float values, making this a serious issue to me. On top of that, you'll have to change the cursor size manually by diving into the config.
The iphone 6+ display uses downsampling, so perhaps that's the way to go. But as things stand, I don't see my self using an external monitor in the near future, even after wayland becomes mainstream.
Re: High-DPI displays and Linux
#5Firefox on Linux currently doesn't support a mixture of HiDPI and non-HiDPI monitors, it has a single DPI setting. I think it will be supported when this [1] bug is resolved. Shameless plug: I have written an addon to workaround this [2]. [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=975919 [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/autohidpi/
Planning to do something similar for Thunderbird as well, as it suffers from the same problem?
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#6What a mess. I didn't know HiDPI was so spotty on Linux. It's unclear to me why people would subject themselves to such an experience. If you want a HiDPI laptop, why not spend a little more to get a retina mac? On a developer's salary, the difference is a rounding error.
Re: High-DPI displays and Linux
#7What a mess. I didn't know HiDPI was so spotty on Linux. It's unclear to me why people would subject themselves to such an experience. If you want a HiDPI laptop, why not spend a little more to get a retina mac? On a developer's salary, the difference is a rounding error.
Not every developer gets SV-level salaries. It's certainly not a rounding error for junior devs where I live; it's more than a month's salary.
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#8What a mess. I didn't know HiDPI was so spotty on Linux. It's unclear to me why people would subject themselves to such an experience. If you want a HiDPI laptop, why not spend a little more to get a retina mac? On a developer's salary, the difference is a rounding error.
I would not call it a mess. I run Ubuntu on Lenovo X1 Carbon and Asus Zenbook UX31A and on both machines all the software that I run except Steam work just fine.
And OSX is not Linux. I don't want non-Linux OS.
Re: High-DPI displays and Linux
#9If your display is over 1080p (I use 1920x1200), Linux (at least Mint 17) switches to HiDPI by default, reducing my effective resolution to 960x600... There is some obscure setting that can switch HiDPI off, but it's a mess overall for the time being as some apps still use HiDPI (like gdm).
Re: High-DPI displays and Linux
#10What a mess. I didn't know HiDPI was so spotty on Linux. It's unclear to me why people would subject themselves to such an experience. If you want a HiDPI laptop, why not spend a little more to get a retina mac? On a developer's salary, the difference is a rounding error.
I would not call it a mess. I run Ubuntu on Lenovo X1 Carbon and Asus Zenbook UX31A and on both machines all the software that I run except Steam work just fine. And OSX is not Linux. I don't want non-Linux OS.
How do you survive with UX31A's touchpad in Linux? On my UX32VD it's the most horrible part of Linux experience (also battery drained while idle in 2 hours (2 SSDs) doesn't help)