After more than forty years, everyone knows that it’s time to retire the X Window System – X11 for short – on account of it being old and decrepit. Or at least that’s what t…
a consistent way to make the 2 different DPIs of the screens work in a way that made sense
What do you mean? I used multidisplay setups for 15 years, I never checked what’s the DPI of my monitors is and never had issues. I just plug in any external monitors I have around and it works. I did it on desktop machines and many different laptops. I’m always baffled when people say their monitors don’t work because of sync rates or DPI. What are they trying to do and what’s not working?
It’s been a problem with 4k monitors. For them the interface has to be scaled to about 200%. When you have got a 1080p monitor next to that you have a choice of:
Having a ridiculously large interface on the 1080p one
Having a ridiculously small interface on the 4k one
e.g. one monitor is 96dpi, and the other is 192dpi, moving a window from one monitor to the other shouldn’t result in the window becoming a different physical size, and it should render at a natural resolution on both (i.e. scaling it to half size for display on the 96dpi monitor doesn’t count)
What do you mean? I used multidisplay setups for 15 years, I never checked what’s the DPI of my monitors is and never had issues. I just plug in any external monitors I have around and it works. I did it on desktop machines and many different laptops. I’m always baffled when people say their monitors don’t work because of sync rates or DPI. What are they trying to do and what’s not working?
It’s been a problem with 4k monitors. For them the interface has to be scaled to about 200%. When you have got a 1080p monitor next to that you have a choice of:
e.g. one monitor is 96dpi, and the other is 192dpi, moving a window from one monitor to the other shouldn’t result in the window becoming a different physical size, and it should render at a natural resolution on both (i.e. scaling it to half size for display on the 96dpi monitor doesn’t count)