Lets Drop Old Monitors

[Doug]

On 07/17/2018 04:12 PM, Karsten Loh wrote:
> I've to say I'm a bit puzzled which programs you are running that 
> won't work with the Scale display function. I'm running my HiDPI 
> Monitor for over a year now and I found only few programs (and they 
> keep getting fewer thankfully) that did not adhere to the setting. 
> Mostly those are java programs (which cause the same problem on 
> Windows btw.) and older GTK programs).
> Btw. no offense, but it might help if you stop calling your 4k display 
> "HD". In computing HD is generally understood to indicate a resolution 
> of 1920x1080 px. I don't think there is much need to allow for 
> increasing fonts, icons, etc. for most people at that resolution. What 
> you are referring to is usually called a HiDPI or 4k monitor. Stating 
> HD while actually referring to HiDPI is going to throw of a lot of people.
>
>
> LLAP,
>
> Karsten
Now I understand. I'm not sure why anyone would buy a 4k monitor, except 
maybe for games. And they're almost all on Windows. 1920 is more than 
enough for me.
--doug
> --
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> On 17.07.2018 21:28, Bill Vance wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 17 Jul 2018, Bmarsh wrote:
>>
>>>       From: Bill Vance <kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org>
>>>       Subject: Re: Lets Drop Old Monitors
>>>       Date: 7/17/18 10:42 AM
>>>       To: Kubuntu user technical support 
>>> <kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>>>
>>>       <snip>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>       On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Doug wrote:
>>>
>>>       > have you tried changing the DPI setting?
>>>       >
>>>       >
>>>       > That is one of two methods of changing font sizes in
>>>       > system
>>>       > settings.  Neither of them is anywhere close to working
>>>       > perfectly.
>>>       >
>>>       >
>>>       > the DPI setting changes not just the font size, but also the
>>>       > graphics sizes, at least for all apps that pay attention to 
>>> this.
>>>
>>>       Which, unfortunately, is no guarentee that they'll do a good job
>>>       of it, which is one of the main reasons I'm lobbying for making
>>>       individual adjustments to text, and symbol sizes.
>>>
>>> I don’t much care for the idea of individual adjustments.  I really 
>>> don’t want
>>> to have to go thru what could be 100 or more ‘adjustments’ every 
>>> time I switch
>>> to a new release or download a new app.  Just one would do...
>>
>>
>> With appropriate default values, you shouldn't need to make
>> more than just a few adjustments, if that many.
>>
>>
>>   and I hate to say
>>> this but Windows handles different monitors quite well.
>>
>>
>> Which only says that Linux needs to pull it's head out,
>> and get to work.
>>
>>
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