[Discuss] kinda shot myself in the foot with UHD monitors

[adler at stephenadler.com (Stephen Adler)]

I had a pair of the equivalent samsung 27" monitors (850 type) and the 
fonts worked OK. But for some reason when I went to the 4K UHD 
resolution, the fonts just basically fell apart into this tiny world. 
It's a bit annoying...


On 09/06/2014 07:44 AM, Jason Normand wrote:
> Have not had an issue personally, running WQHD on a 27" ultrasharp.  but
> was thinking of that exact issue with dells new 5k 27".  Some of it is just
> personal preference and what one runs.  But something developers will need
> to account.
> On Sep 6, 2014 7:32 AM, "Stephen Adler" <adler at stephenadler.com> wrote:
>
>> So I got want I always wanted... the best freeken monitors I could get my
>> hands on.... Samsung UHD LU28D590DS/ZA. (As it turns out, there's a new 32"
>> monitor which just came out, so be it for getting my hands on the latest
>> technology....)
>>
>> So I've run into a rather unexpected problem, I have a monitor with too
>> much resolution. I never thought that could possibly happen. My main
>> problem is that the font on all the applications I run are just too small
>> to read. So I spent time digging through all the font options (I use the
>> Gnome desktop environment) and found an option which would scale up all the
>> fonts by a factor of 2. So that kinda helped. Now my fonts all look odd.
>>
>> Basically, I've ended up with a rather ugly looking environment with
>> mismatched font sizes and icons. For example when I run thunderbird, most
>> of the fonts are readable, but the text in the actual emails comes up in
>> the default font size of 10 or 11 points or something like that and I cant
>> read it. I can use the wheel button to zoom the text so I can read it but
>> its just an awkward work around.
>>
>> So, has anyone run into this UHD problem? Are there any gnome set ups
>> designed for UHD resolution which fix all the font and icons to be working
>> together to give one a pleasing visual experience when viewing all the
>> application windows?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Steve.
>>
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