On Fri, 29 Aug 2025 07:59:07 +0000 dep <[email protected]> said:
> This is only peripherally related to Enlightenment, but it applies to > third-party applications run here, so I hope it is not too OT and apologize > if it is. > > I'm running a 7-inch screen that has 168-dpi resolution. This means that > everything is incredibly tiny, because the sane world assumes 96-dpi. For > Enlightenment things and many other desktops, you can set scaling in the > desktop itself, which I've done. But E is the only desktop I have installed > on this machine, so any other application I run -- well, *most* others -- is > postage-stamp sized with text like that of those tiny Bibles they used to > sell in the back of the Sunday supplement (such as the ProtonMail I'm using > to write this). > > Somewhere before we get to login there is some configuration file that tells > X11 to use a specific screen resolution. I have searched and searched and > cannot find that file. My savior thusfar has been a set of 3x reading glasses > I accidentally bought. Not ideal. > > There being people here who have forgotten more about all this since > breakfast than I have ever known, I figure there is probably someone here who > knows the name of that file and perhaps even the syntax to tell it to use 168 > dots per inch. Anybody know? I know it can be done, because it worked when > the machine was new seven years ago, running Ubuntu. But I've blown that off > for Debian Trixie. by default out of the box all you should need is to set e's scaling to whatever looks right/good. check the following config dialogs to double check on settings: http://www.enlightenment.org/ss/e-68b1785f26a415.73071718.png scale settings - i switched ot advanced but set scaling factor to whatever works for you. ensure "set app dpi" is on - the base dpi of 75 SHOULD be right - its the BASE - ie what a 1.0 scale is for... e will SET a dpi via xft+xsettings to base * scale (so a scale of 2.0 would mean 75 * 2.0 == 150). xft.dpi/xsettings are respected by most widget sets and thus most apps (gtk, qt, chromium, ffox, libreoffice etc.). if not then you may have something wrong with that app specifically. now even better is to set font settings and enable font classes and set sans + normal. this will. make sure apps and e all use the SAME FONT... thus it'll come out the same size - otherwise gtk/qt/whatever may use watever font they like by default. even without this the default whatever they pick will get told the dpi above thus scale up. in addition just ensure "enable x settings" is on in app theme settings. it should be. i happen to have found the e-gtk-pro theme that i hunted down (google for it) and that happens to match e's flat theme for gtk apps... so handy - but not needed for scaling. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - [email protected] _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
