said Carsten Haitzler: | 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.
Thanks very much. I started with your base settings and cobbled together something fairly readable in most applications. I may at some point try a little fine tuning, though at this point hitting Apply or OK causes everything except the mouse pointer to disappear, never to return except by a hard restart, making the crashing sound a couple seconds after the mouse pointer reappears on the blank screen. I am, though, no closer to understanding what's going on here -- there are some distinctions that I've not heard of before. The one remaining practical difficulty is in getting the menu font in E to become bigger by at least 1.5x and preferably 2x. I'm sure it's someplace, but damned if I can find it. Thanks again! -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
