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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: 0s | 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. yjftsjthsd-h ◴[25 Jun 25 13:58 UTC] No.44377419{3}[source]▶
If we can require applications to draw their own window controls, I think we can ask them to handle their pixel densities.
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2. em-bee ◴[25 Jun 25 16:59 UTC] No.44379495[source]▶
that's a good point. window controls should be at the proper scale too.