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stockmind / gpd-pocket-ubuntu-respin

Collection of scripts and tweaks to adapt Ubuntu and Linux Mint ISO images to let them run smooth on GPD Pocket
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i3 window manager #115

Closed sanenr9 closed 6 years ago

sanenr9 commented 6 years ago

Hello,

I am not sure, if this is connected to your work at all, but as you have such a big knowledge on the gpd pocket i just thought i add it here.

I set up your respin on Kubuntu and it worked great the last months with KDE plasma.

I now started using the cool tiling window manager i3wm, so i just logged out and back in with i3.

Everything is working fine, but Chromium-Browser and some other apps like Thunderbird are not scaling correctly (They are acting as if this was a huge hd screen and everything is really small).

I assume this is about GTK scaling settings. Could you advise which changes i have to do to achieve the same effect of "normal" scaling like under Plasma, that you so brilliantly achieved? Or could i even start one of your scripts from the respin and it will do the changes?

Thanks so much for your help!

Michael

stockmind commented 6 years ago

Hi!

Try this:

export GDK_SCALE=2
export GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5

Or add to /etc/environment file and reboot:

GDK_SCALE=2
GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5

This will do it for you:

echo "GDK_SCALE=2" >> /etc/environment
echo "GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5" >> /etc/environment

The GPD Pocket screen (1920x1080) is like a "huge" high definition display compressed in 7" size. So GTK apps need to be upscaled accordingly to look acceptable.

GDK_SCALE however accept only integers, so you are tied to 1 (default) or 2 (2x original size).

This however is handled by other Desktop Environment so is possibile that you need to remove those lines from /etc/environment (to prevent odd behaviour) if you want to use different DE than i3.

Let me know if this helps

sanenr9 commented 6 years ago

It worked! Thank you so much :+1: