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Ancient X11 scaling technology

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283 points todsacerdoti | 2 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.639s | source
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wmf ◴[24 Jun 25 19:29 UTC] No.44370040[source]▶
Drawing a circle is kind of cheating. The hard part of scaling is drawing UI elements like raster icons or 1px hairlines to look non-blurry.
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1. dark-star ◴[24 Jun 25 20:05 UTC] No.44370470[source]▶
yeah, exactly. Nobody claimed that it is impossible to determin the physical geometry of your display (but that might be tricky for remote X sessions, I don't know if it would work there too?)
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2. kvemkon ◴[24 Jun 25 20:11 UTC] No.44370515[source]▶
> tricky for remote X sessions, I don't know if it would work there too

The author did exactly this:

> Even better, I didn’t mention that I wasn’t actually running this program on my laptop. It was running on my router in another room, but everything worked as if