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Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors?

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On 12/25/25 21:38, John-Paul Stewart wrote:
> On 2025-12-24 11:15 p.m., Robert Riches wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone have favorite tutorials or other helps for dealing
>> with a high-DPI transition?
>>
>> I'm Running Devuan (currently Daedalus, hopefully soon Excalibur)
>> using plain X and fvwm2, no DE as such with 1920x1200 monitors.
>> Just purchased a round of 4k monitors, so I'll be needing to
>> adjust xterm fonts, web browser issues, other GUI application
>> issues, etc.
> 
> It's been a couple years since made a similar switch.  But as far as I
> recall, there's not much to do other than configuring X.  I had to
> manually specify the monitors' physical size (in millimetres) in my
> xorg.conf so that X could calculate the correct DPI.  Then everything
> that's measured in points just kind of fell into place.  (E.g., there
> was nothing to be done for LibreOffice, etc.)

   Ha ... yea ... I remember installing 'X' on a very
   early RedHat. Tons of manual tweaks - with LOTS of
   guessing and fails - involved there. It was a good
   day before I got the damned mouse to work right  :-)

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[On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2025-12-25 04:15 +0000
  Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2025-12-25 11:45 +0000
    Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2025-12-26 02:03 +0000
  Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> - 2025-12-25 21:38 -0500
    Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2025-12-26 03:55 +0000
      Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> - 2025-12-26 11:10 -0500
        Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2025-12-31 05:00 +0000
    Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-26 00:03 -0500
    Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2026-01-15 05:09 +0000
      Xorg drivers overriding display resolution (was: Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors?) Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-01-15 11:20 +0000
    Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2026-01-21 22:54 +0000
      Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> - 2026-01-22 10:09 +0000
        Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@personalprojects.net> - 2026-01-22 09:34 -0500
          Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2026-01-23 04:23 +0000
  Re: [On-Topic] any favorite tutorials or other helps for high-DPI monitors? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-12-26 00:00 -0500

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