"If GNOME enters HiDPI mode with 1440 vertical pixels  "

Could you please explain "If"The question is: does* it use such simple logic? Do you know about it? That would be ridiculous IMO. If not, it would be nice if someone could elaborate the logic/algorithm Gnome uses.

It should at least depend on DPI, and there should further be a 'scaling'/zoom' (at least globally but preferably also per_application) user setting. A good quality monitor is usable with higher DPI than a poorer one. On an 27" monitor, for instance, 1920*1440 is actually a somewhat low DPI. Win7 (and various Linuxes running virtualized) works fine on my stationary here with a 27" monitor (this one: http://www.samsung.com/ca/consumer/office/monitors/led/LS27B970DS/ZCwith 2560*1440 resolution. I bought this monitor in order to work in 3-4 application (all reasonable sized) simultaneously. I will not accept that some stupid Window Manager *thinks that I am better off* with 1280*720 or whtever similar. I really don't hope this is the case.

There are also personal preferences. Some people like it big and some people like it small.


-- Peter

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
On 01/10/2015 12:34 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
14" model with HDMI (1920*1440) and not higher - also because I

As noted earlier in this thread you can adjust the dpi in Xfce, so it's
slightly better than just making the fonts bigger, but it's less than
a real HIDPI solution.

If GNOME enters HiDPI mode with 1440 vertical pixels, you end up with 720 effective pixels vertically, which is not enough for some GNOME dialog boxes.

At this point, manually tweaked settings appear superior to stock configurations (even for basic usability).

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security



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Peter Laursen