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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: 0.273s | 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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rwmj ◴[25 Jun 25 08:38 UTC] No.44374976[source]▶
I have never had a window open across two screens if I could help it. Complete non-problem.
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1. Ar-Curunir ◴[25 Jun 25 15:02 UTC] No.44378158[source]▶
You have never used two monitors with different scaling (eg laptop and desk monitor), and have never moved windows between them? Ever?

If so, good for you, but there are plenty of people who do so.

Hell, in X11 it even sucks if you use the screens one at a time, eg if you turn plug your laptop into the monitor and turn off the laptop screen, and then later unplug and continue your work on the laptop, the scaling will be off on at least one device.