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#1 2019-05-03 11:35:21
- potuz
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different point scaling on different screens
Hello, I suppose this is a common problem but I didn't find a solution in the wiki. I own a Dell XPS 13" which has at the same time a high definition and a small screen. I plug it to an external 32" UHD monitor which has a better resolution than the screen and it's much larger. I don't use both at the same time but I do unplug the monitor while working and continue working on the laptop screen and vice-versa. Consequently I'd like to have a behaviour like if I had different values of environment variables like QT_SCALE_FACTOR and the such for GTK etc. on the different screens. Is this even possible?
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#2 2019-05-03 13:34:52
- seth
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Re: different point scaling on different screens
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#3 2019-05-09 00:20:39
- potuz
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Re: different point scaling on different screens
So in the first link, that I had read, there's no mention of this issue, while the second link is exactly about this situation, addresses the issue at least for QT applications... unfortunately that does not cover my main use.
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#4 2019-05-09 06:55:41
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Re: different point scaling on different screens
The first link (and so does ultimately the second) advises you to scale one of the displays - it's basically the only reliable and global way to deal w/ hybrid setups.
Status quo is that for historic reasons the vast majority (virtually "all") of clients (toolkits would only cover part of the content anyway) does not adapt to DPI changes at all, let alone physical DPI as obtained from xrandr.
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