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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by Hydraulix989 on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:10AM (#13946547)
To be fair, X11 can't handle multiple displays with mixed DPI.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by nitrogen on Friday March 24, 2017 @12:17AM (#13946563)
You sort of can with xrandr scaling.
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Re:VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor ren... by truncate on Friday March 24, 2017 @04:59AM (#13947578)
Last time I did that, my CPU was always spinning and the rendering looked blurry and non-crisp. Now I just prefer to reduce my emacs and terminal font size, and keep Chrome in one display forever.
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