[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 15285] HiDPI monitor, GDK_SCALE=2, icons offscreen and blurred background

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15285

--- Comment #11 from pezcurrel <pezcurrel at tiscali.it> ---
(In reply to pezcurrel from comment #9)
> (In reply to Andre Miranda from comment #7)
> 
> > 1. Icons offscreen: if you scale the icon size less icons will fit the
> > screen. I think that if you use GDK_SCALE=1 on a monitor half of your
> > resolution the same amount of icons would be displayed. Try a smaller icon
> > size under Desktop Settings -> Icons.
> 
> I have understand now there is a misunderstanding :)
> The problem is not related to a screen full of icons, but... let's say you
> have a screen with no icons yet and have "icons orientation" set to "top
> left vertical" (the default)... now you create some files on the desktop...
> file "1", "2", "3", and so on, until these files' icons fill the vertical
> size of your screen, let's say, with file "8". Now you create file "9". Its
> icon doesn't show on the desktop, it "gets rendered" below its bottom, and
> the same happens with new file "10", "11" and so on, until you reach file
> "17": its icon gets rendered on top of screen as first icon of a new column,
> while icons for files from "9" to "16" stay offscreen and there's no way to
> reach them.
> It's like the algorithm that places the icons is considering a double-sized
> desktop.

Also notice that exactly the same issue shows up if one set "window scaling" to
"2x" under "settings" -> "appearence" -> "settings", without setting any
GDK_SCALE in the environment.

> > Unfortunately it's complicated to use xfdesktop scaled in a 1366x768 screen
> > :)
> 
> It's a hidpi, "4k", 3840x2160 screen :)

Sorry, I didn't understand you were referring to your own screen :)

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