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Ancient X11 scaling technology

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283 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | source
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amiga386 ◴[24 Jun 25 22:55 UTC] No.44371936[source]▶
It's not "can you provide the screen DPI to a window?" people bemoan, it's "can you draw one window across two screens with differing DPIs, transparent to the application?"
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kelnos ◴[25 Jun 25 03:46 UTC] No.44373475[source]▶
You can absolutely do that on X11, but you have to do it in the client, and no one cares to do it.
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em-bee ◴[25 Jun 25 07:41 UTC] No.44374620[source]▶
if you have to do it in the client, aka the application, then it's not transparent to the application
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1. p_l ◴[25 Jun 25 10:54 UTC] No.44375787[source]▶
It's not transparent on Wayland or Windows (no idea about mac) either if you want actually properly drawn stuff.

Well, ok, on Windows if you keep to certain standard elements of Windows API and only use standard widgets you could get close to transparency.