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Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively

From Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively
Date 2018-02-28 18:10 +0100
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On 2018-02-28, Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2018-02-28 at 06:50 -0500, songbird wrote:
>> 
>>   the only real negatives of the newer monitor is
>> that the scaling of fonts/menus/window sizes is set
>> so small and not easily adjustable in the program
>> itself that i have to change my monitor screen size
>> in order to be able to read the menu items or see
>> what is going on.  not everything pays attention to
>> system font settings.
>> 
>> 
>>   songbird
>> 
>
> Maybe upscaling would help a lot here, it does when I output on hdmi,
> with Mate that's
> System - Preferences - look and feel - appearance 
> then
> fonts - detail - resolution 
> I set mine to around 144 and leave system fonts the same and then the
> vast majority of programs will respect that and be of a readable size
> at high monitor resolution.
>  
> I guess with other desktops you could set it easily enough in an
> .Xresources file that runs on entering X-server
>
> You will of course find occasional programs that completely ignore
> this.
>
> Cheers,
> Dom.
>
>

Those misbehaving programs are probably getting their DPI information
from the X server directly. If you start X with the '-dpi 144' switch
then you should get consistent behaviour.

For example:

	startx -- -dpi 144

-- 

Liam

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Using MATE's workspaces effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-16 13:40 +0100
  Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-02-16 18:00 +0100
    Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-16 21:00 +0100
      Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-02-16 22:00 +0100
        Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-02-16 22:50 +0100
          Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-16 23:10 +0100
        Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-16 23:00 +0100
          Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-02-19 14:10 +0100
            Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-19 15:00 +0100
            Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2018-02-28 07:40 +0100
              Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-02-28 13:50 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2018-02-28 14:10 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> - 2018-02-28 18:10 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-03-02 01:30 +0100
              Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-28 14:30 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-02-28 15:10 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-28 16:20 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-02-28 16:40 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2018-02-28 16:50 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-28 17:50 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-03-02 01:30 +0100
                Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2018-03-02 01:40 +0100
  [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-17 04:40 +0100
    Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces  effectively Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-02-17 11:30 +0100
      Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2018-02-17 12:20 +0100
        Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces  effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-17 14:20 +0100
      Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces  effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-17 14:00 +0100
    Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively rhkramer@gmail.com - 2018-02-17 14:20 +0100
      Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces  effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-17 15:30 +0100
    Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-02-17 14:50 +0100
      Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces  effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-17 15:40 +0100
        Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces effectively John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-02-17 16:10 +0100
          Re: [likely out of luck] was -- Re: Using MATE's workspaces  effectively Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-17 16:40 +0100
            Re: [likely out of luck] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-02-17 17:20 +0100
              Re: [likely out of luck] John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-02-17 17:50 +0100
              Re: [likely out of luck] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-17 20:30 +0100
                Re: [likely out of luck] John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-02-17 20:50 +0100
                Re: [likely out of luck] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-19 18:40 +0100
                Re: [likely out of luck] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-02-19 20:00 +0100
                Re: [likely out of luck] David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2018-02-17 22:10 +0100
                [ROFL] cross product [CAVEAT LECTOR] -- Re: [likely out of luck] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2018-02-17 22:50 +0100
                Re: [ROFL] cross product [CAVEAT LECTOR] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-02-17 23:10 +0100
                Re: [ROFL] cross product [CAVEAT LECTOR] -- Re: [likely out of luck] John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-02-17 23:30 +0100
                Re: [likely out of luck] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-02-17 22:10 +0100
                Re: [likely out of luck] John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-02-17 22:30 +0100
                Re: [likely out of luck] "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2018-02-17 22:50 +0100
                Re: [likely out of luck] John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2018-02-17 23:20 +0100
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