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by nvarsj 2900 days ago
I completely agree. I went from an x1c 1080p to a t480s 1440p. It’s great stand alone. But I’m frequently hooking it up to external lodpi screens, and the amount of zooming and unzooming I have to do is making me slowly go crazy. A shame the dpi situation is such a mess.

It wouldn’t be so bad if Wayland was widely supported, as it can handle mixed DPI pretty well. Unfortunately I can’t swap to wayland until browsers and Java apps (aka IntelliJ) support it.
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nikki93 2899 days ago
Sad. :/ I’m about to get an X1 Carbon or T480s and trying to decide if 1440p... On the one hand, really digging the idea of hidpi fonts in terminals and web; on the other hand this Linux support madness...

I think the main thing to ponder is whether I’ll be hooking it up to external displays a lot. Is the situation basically “no issues” if not using external displays?

Also when hooking up to external is it possible to make X switch to lodpi everywhere and “pretend” that the 1440p screen is 1080p (like tell applications it’s 1080p)?

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nvarsj 2898 days ago
Yeah it is only an issue if using mixed DPI. I set the font scaling in Gnome 3 to 1.5, and everything handles it fine - even IntelliJ scales its fonts accordingly.

If you can match your external DPI to the laptop that would also work (but it's sort of an awkward DPI).

The hiDPI is nice for your fonts, but for working day-to-day I don't really notice it much.

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