Lets Drop Old Monitors

[Doug]

On 07/16/2018 03:40 PM, David Lang wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2018, Bill Vance wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, David Lang wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 15 Jul 2018, Bmarsh wrote:
>>>
>>>> The problem is with the newer video monitors and laptops.  A year 
>>>> ago, I bought a Lenovo laptop with a UHD monitor.  ( 3840x2160 or 
>>>> thereabouts). Darn near impossible to install Linux and even after 
>>>> a LOT of tweaking, the fonts and viewing isn’t ideal.
>>>>
>>>> I keep a magnifying glass handy whenever I am using it.
>>>
>>> have you tried changing the DPI setting?
>>
>> That is one of two methods of changing font sizes in system
>> settings.  Neither of them is anywhere close to working
>> perfectly.
>
> the DPI setting changes not just the font size, but also the graphics 
> sizes, at least for all apps that pay attention to this.
>
> There really isn't a good way to override what the app does if it's 
> not well behaved.
>
> remember you need to logout after changing the DPI for it to work.
>
> I recently replaced by 1080 HD monitor with a 4K monitor the same 
> size, and I've had a laptop with a 4k screen, so I've had to deal with 
> this and with kubuntu, the DPI setting fixed pretty much everything.
>
> David Lang
>
>
I've been looking at this thread for a while, and it looks to me that 
the title is wrong: it's the old monitors that provide proper sized 
fonts. I just bought a 27" AOC monitor, and I have an older NVIDIA
card in the machine, and everything works perfectly. Why would anyone 
want to phase out the old monitors? The new one I just bought looks 
fine. (And the old one, a ViewSonic, also worked fine.)
--doug

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