Open rmol opened 5 years ago
Does Qube work on any of those high DPI systems?
It does. They're definitely adding support.
I think we might have some more general scaling problems; on my 1920x1080 T480 I increased Xft.dpi
in ~/.Xresources
and our text doesn't scale like other apps'. In fact even the solution I suggested above doesn't seem to affect the login dialog labels, though everything else scales.
Here are two instances (on my 4K Debian system), the larger one with QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
and the smaller without:
Note the clipping and smaller button text in the unscaled instance.
Once logged in, though, the text in headers and conversations is larger and much more legible.
Unfortunately, using QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
on my T480, the login dialog is blown up so big it no longer fits on my screen; the bottom controls are out of reach below the edge of the screen.
This is probably going to be more complicated than I'd hoped. :frowning_face:
By default, looks nice in 4k
When changing the text dpi/scaling option in appearance -> dpi (doubling from 96 to 180), only the title bar text is scaled:
This should not impact most users with current recommended hardware & settings, but still worth researching longer term as we broaden hardware & display support and improve accessibility.
Just some quick notes on what my dom0 Appearance
config looks like on a fresh install of Qubes 4.0.4:
I haven't looked into this as much as @rmol, but it looks like this is still open: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1951.
We should ensure we're enabling Qt's high DPI support. It might be as simple as setting
QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=1
in the environment, and makes the client a lot more usable on high resolution displays.Without it, text can be so small as to be nearly illegible, and is sometimes clipped -- I saw this as early as the login box.