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JohnSmith2

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Rebuilding GTK+ for HiDPI support in GNOME 3

My main laptop has a HiDPI screen with a resolution of 3200x1800. I was looking up how to get GNOME 3.12 to scale properly (2x scaling) on this wiki page, and it says:

For now to correctly enable HiDPI in GNOME you need latest version of cairo-git, and rebuild gtk with this version of cairo (this includes v3.12).

How would I go about doing this? I know I need to install cairo-git from the AUR, but how do I rebuild GTK?

Thanks.

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Re: Rebuilding GTK+ for HiDPI support in GNOME 3

Welcome to Arch. Official packages like gtk3 have PKGBUILDs just like AUR packages. To get them, please read about ABS on the wiki.

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JohnSmith2

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Re: Rebuilding GTK+ for HiDPI support in GNOME 3

Thanks for the reply.

When I rebuild the gtk3 package, do I have to make any modifications to the PKGBUILD file from ABS?

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Re: Rebuilding GTK+ for HiDPI support in GNOME 3

If I understand the quote from wiki correctly, you'd only need the cairo-git installed and rebuild gtk+ after that. So no modifications should be required but you never know until you try.