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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: 0.235s | 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. rbanffy ◴[25 Jun 25 12:41 UTC] No.44376620[source]▶
It'll not be transparent to an application using basic X APIs, but nothing prevents a higher level UI toolkit from implementing it properly.