Re: gnome 3.12 and HiDPI

[Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com>]

Yes, that is expected, but until the bugs get fixed there's no way to
get sharp text & proper-sized UI/buttons.

On 04/28/2014 09:16 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote:
> Hi, thanks for the reply. I already tried it but it is not a solution
> because then the buttons are completely screwed and become very tiny...
>
>
> On 28 April 2014 21:11, Hashem Nasarat <hnasarat gmail com
> <mailto:hnasarat gmail com>> wrote:
>
>     On 04/28/2014 08:07 AM, Flavien Lambert wrote:
>     > Dear all, after looking in Ubuntu and Fedora forums, I did not find
>     > relevant information so I try now on this list. I hope that this
>     kind of
>     > topic is relevant here. If not, all my apologies.
>     >
>     > I run Fedora 20 on a Lenovo  Yoga 2 pro which has a native
>     resolution of
>     > 3200x1800. Reading about the improvements in the management of
>     HiDPI by
>     > the version 3.12 of Gnome, I upgraded it from 3.10 thanks to the copr
>     > reporisitories. Everything went smoothly except that the management of
>     > HiDPI does not seem to me so different.
>     >
>     > I changed the value of the scaling factor (org gnome desktop
>     interface),
>     > trying 1 and 2. 1 provides a perfect display of text inside evince and
>     > web as well as the rest of the whole environment but leads to
>     extremely
>     > small buttons or bars like 3mm. 2 gives the right size of the elements
>     > but a very blurred rendering of the text with evince and web. I
>     tried to
>     > modify the text size, with a scaling factor of 1, by increasing
>     the font
>     > size but, unfortunately, only parts of the buttons are displayed
>     with a
>     > consistent size.
>     >
>     > Is there a particular set of parameters to obtain a correct display?
>     >
>     > Best regards,
>     > Flavien.
>     >
>     >
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>
>     Setting the scaling factor to 2 is what's intended for HiDPI users. The
>     fact that Evince and Web are blurry are bugs in the two projects.
>
>     Evince:
>     https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723431
>
>     WebKitGTK:
>     https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131347
>
>     as documented in the evince bug, if you have scaling factor set to 2,
>     you can still launch evince with the scaling factor set to 1 only for
>     that application by running the following from the terminal:
>
>     GDK_SCALE=1 evince
>
>     You may be able to always set the environment variable via the
>     evince.desktop file:
>     http://askubuntu.com/questions/144968/set-variable-in-desktop-file