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Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by somat on Monday May 02, 2022 @08:39PM (#31242929)
X11 has been able to do mixed resolution from the beginning.

http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/

Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software? by dcminter on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @10:06AM (#31248472)
This may be technically true, but since I don't want to spend a lot of time messing with command line tools then it might as well not be.

Edit - To add a little context since that on reflection seems too dismissive...

I did try a whole bunch of things a while back, include several variations on xrandr stuff. I never did get to a place where all the following were true:

  Both screens were operating at their maximum resolution
  All app windows were appropriately sized (readable fonts, correctly scaled menu bars, etc.)
  Neither screen was blurry due to scaling
I wouldn't swear it was impossible but with recent versions of Ubuntu under Wayland I could have all three without having to do anything at the command line.

I love the command line. I just don't find messing around with config to make the basic system stuff work properly edifying.