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    From Robert Riches@spamtrap42@jacob21819.net to comp.os.linux.misc on Thu Dec 25 04:15:36 2025
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    (In the old days, it was appropriate to tag off-topic posts in
    this newsgroup with the bracketed [OT]. Lately, it seems more
    appropriate to tag on-topic posts with something. 1/2 :-)

    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.

    For web browser issues, I anticipate a lot of fun with websites
    and web apps that use (n)px directives for some of their margins
    and spacing. If the browser interprets those at face value,
    mixed with other directives in units of text elements and such,
    things could end up looking somewhat different from how the
    developers intended.

    Thanks!
    --
    Robert Riches
    spamtrap42@jacob21819.net
    (Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)
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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Thu Dec 25 11:45:52 2025
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 25/12/2025 04:15, Robert Riches wrote:
    (In the old days, it was appropriate to tag off-topic posts in
    this newsgroup with the bracketed [OT]. Lately, it seems more
    appropriate to tag on-topic posts with something. 1/2 :-)

    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.

    For web browser issues, I anticipate a lot of fun with websites
    and web apps that use (n)px directives for some of their margins
    and spacing. If the browser interprets those at face value,
    mixed with other directives in units of text elements and such,
    things could end up looking somewhat different from how the
    developers intended.

    Thanks!

    Browsers at least will allow you to magnify . Most applications will
    allow a choice of font size and in general desktops can use
    'accessibility' or simply font setups oin menus and borders etc.
    --
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    can avoid it; the new culture tells us you should always take offence if
    you can. There are now experts in the art of taking offence, indeed
    whole academic subjects, such as 'gender studies', devoted to it.

    Sir Roger Scruton

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