Screen scaling, which is the best way (or are they all the same)?

[Chris Green]

killermoehre at gmx.net wrote:
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> Hi,
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> scaling via X only looks good if you use whole integer scaling. Everything else is blurry.
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> For my 4k display at work I use no scaling, but 192 dpi with an extra thick 
> window border theme. I have extra wide panels as well and most icons scale 
> with dpi. 
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Does that work well because it's 2 x 96?


> For some non-GTK applications I have to tweak their theming to adjust to the larger DPI.
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> With the font I suggest switching from a bitmap font to something vector 
> based. At such high definitions, single pixels aren't an issue anymore. 
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I can't do that, the program in question only works with bitmap fonts.
Moving to truetype/freetype is in development bt hasn't happened yet.

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Chris Green
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