Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Management Engine

Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by dmix on Friday October 20, 2017 @08:13AM (#15515128)

Gnome has had good high DPI support for a while now...

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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by mamon on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:00AM (#15516294)

Any DE that does not support fraction scaling does not qualify as "good HDPI support". KDE is doing it the right way.

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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by holtalanm on Friday October 20, 2017 @11:48AM (#15516676)

I'm running Gnome on my retina displayed laptop and I can confirm that this is not true.

The high DPI suppport on gnome equates to 'SCALE ALL THE THINGS 2x DERPA DERPA DERP'

And the scaling is integer-based. So, I can choose 1x, 2x, or any other whole number. Useless as hell for me, who wishes it was probably 1.25x.

It sucks bad enough that I actually WISH I was on a 1080p screen, because with the 2x scaling i effectively have a 1324x768 pos screen.

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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday October 20, 2017 @12:31PM (#15517071)

They introduced experimental support for fractional scaling in 3.26: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/enable-fractional-scaling...

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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by holtalanm on Friday October 20, 2017 @01:28PM (#15517559)

This is good to know. I may have to try this out and see how it works. The other option is to just install KDE since they seem to have implemented HDPI support _correctly_.

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Re:Purism Librem Laptops Completely Disable Intel’s Manageme... by gdrift on Friday October 20, 2017 @06:48PM (#15519627)

Yes, KDE on 4k looks good since 17.01. But non Qt/KDE GIMP, InkScape, Audacity, are still a pain to use on Linux with HiDPI.

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