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destate9

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Registered: 2023-09-10

Posts: 8

First Time i3 User: Resolution Scaling

I've been using Arch for almost a year now with KDE Plasma. However, I haven't been inundated with advances from members of the opposite sex yet, so something must be wrong. I figured I should move from KDE Plasma to i3. Also, I'm a vim guy now. This has to work...

When moving to i3, I noticed the resolution was all wrong. It's been so long, I forgotten that I initially set up KDE Plasma with some resolution scaling. I noticed that my laptop screen is 2880x1800 (16:10) and supports 120Hz. Since that makes for some teeny tiny text in this little 14.5" screen, I've found that setting the resolution to 1920x1200 is quite comfortable.

Here's the catch: The screen can only do 60Hz in any resolutions that aren't the max 2880x1800 resolution! I want that sweet 120Hz smoothness. So, instead of changing the resolution to something lower, I could scale, right? I could give over some of the horsepower of my 13th gen i9 (I think I'll be fine) to scaling and life would be grand, right? Well, things appear a tad blurry when I scale.

So I want the 2880x1800 resolution setting, I want everything to be bigger on my tiny screen, and I don't want the blurryness that I'm getting when I try to scale with xrandr. What should I do?

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: First Time i3 User: Resolution Scaling

Maybe the opposite sex isn't your thing?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,601

Re: First Time i3 User: Resolution Scaling

Maybe the opposite sex isn't your thing?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI

destate9:
As a married guy with two daughters (one of whom is an engineer) and one granddaughter, and having been a hacker for at least 50 years, I have some perspective.   
I think you are probably fishing with the wrong bait.   Enjoy the hacking, but get out and do something it you want to meet people.

Edit:  On topic: 
https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html#hidpi
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=247046

Last edited by ewaller (2024-06-02 15:23:30)

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