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Ancient X11 scaling technology

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284 points todsacerdoti | 1 comments | 24 Jun 25 18:58 UTC | HN request time: 0.211s | 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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1. account42 ◴[25 Jun 25 15:42 UTC] No.44378572[source]▶
No, you can't have a window with a different pixel size on one screen and another. Trying to emulate this using two windows would not achieve a smooth experience.

OTOH it is questionable if this is really all that important. Most of the time if a window spans more than one screen it's temporary because you are just moving the window from one screen to another.