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Openbox and thinkpad x1 carbon 3gen #3

Closed francozappa closed 8 years ago

francozappa commented 8 years ago

Hi guys,

I've just installed Manjaro Linux (OB version) in my new laptop (thinkpad x1 carbon 3gen) and the UI is unusable E.g: too tiny characters, menus etc

Can you help me figuring out which is the best way to set it ?

My distro comes with two GUI tools to configure the UI

I'm using tint2 as system bar and conky to display some information

This is the first time that I have this issue because of my screen resolution (2560 by 1440)

Currently I'm using firefox and thunderbird with a huge zoom (200%) and the terminal with huge font size (30) but I'm quite unsatisfied.

Thank you very much !

danakj commented 8 years ago

Run obconf and increase your font sizes?

Or possibly change the DPI of your X server in your X settings?

On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Daniele Antonioli <notifications@github.com

wrote:

Hi guys,

I've just installed Manjaro Linux (OB version) in my new laptop (thinkpad x1 carbon 3gen) and the UI is unusable E.g: too tiny characters, menus etc

Can you help me figuring out which is the best way to set it ?

My distro comes with two GUI tools to configure the UI

  • obmanager to set up OB
  • lxappearance to switch gtk+ theme

I'm using tint2 as system bar and conky to display some information

This is the first time that I have this issue because of my screen resolution (2560 by 1440)

Currently I'm using firefox and thunderbird with a huge zoom (200%) and the terminal with huge font size (30) but I'm quite unsatisfied.

Thank you very much !

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/Mikachu/openbox/issues/3.

francozappa commented 8 years ago

Thank you @danakj for your answer,

It seems that Xserver uses 96 DPI by default even with higher res display.

Im' following those two archwiki pages: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#Display_size_and_DPI

And I've also read to use only certain DPI values (96, 120, 144, etc) to reduce scaling artifacts to GUI that use bitmaps.

The optimal value for my x1 screen should be 220 DPI but I think is too much and now I'm trying to set OB with 192 DPI.