[squeak-dev] Issues with high pixel density display

Tobias das.linux at gmx.de
Sat Sep 21 11:28:22 UTC 2019


Am 21. September 2019 00:55:26 MESZ schrieb Nicola Mingotti <nmingotti at gmail.com>:
>Hi,
>
>I managed to get Squeak-5.2 running in FreeBSD.12 and I am very happy 
>with that.
>
>My problem when using this platform is mostly related to my screen 
>resolution. I am running FreeBSD in VMware Fusion virtual machine, 
>running in a 13' MacBook.
>
>My screen resolution in X Window is 2560x1600. So, be default
>everything 
>is tiny. I had to do various tweaking in order to have most of the 
>software appear with a nice face.
>
>In Squeak I almost got all working fine. There are only a few
>exceptions 
>illustrated in the pictures below.
>1] The PaintBox is terribly squeezed
>2] The input bar in the Preference Browser in too small.
>2.1] A similar thing happens with String, see picture example about the
>
>MIDI player.
>
>In general, there are ways to fix this but they are specific to each 
>kind of GUI tool set.
>For example, all Qt applications can be fixed with 'qt5ct', much of the
>
>classic X stuff can be fixed setting 'Xft.dpi: 180'. Thunderbird has
>its 
>own...
>
>Is there something specific I can do to fix Squeak ?
>

some time ago i gave a go to gui scaling. but it's hard and i haven't had the time to pull through. 

so, answer is: not yet

>bye
>Nicola


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