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Re:The End of Windows by mmjaa on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:31AM (#16734763)
I'm not having any problems running two monitors in HiDPI with my Ubuntu Studio workstation .. everything just works and I enjoy it immensely. Curious what your issues are...
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Re:The End of Windows by snerbles on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:05AM (#16735061)
To be fair, some applications on some distros have HiDPI issues. LibreOffice [0], icons in GTK2 apps, anything that uses Java Swing, etc. Particularly galling is the oft-suggested fix of temporarily reducing desktop resolution and fowling up all the other apps that are supporting the proper DPI.

[0] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?i...

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Re:The End of Windows by deno on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @04:56AM (#16742937)
> anything that uses Java Swing

OpenJDK 9 supports HiDPI out of the box[1].

[1] http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/263

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Re:The End of Windows by TheForumTroll on Monday April 02, 2018 @10:36AM (#16734801)
That he hasn't actually tried Linux.
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