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I see this complaint a lot but on the flip side, I’ve found Xorg high DPI support to be fantastic; better than windows. I recall only touching ~/.Xdefaults and setting Xft.dpi and had great results. I don’t use a desktop environment so that could be the kicker.

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HiDPI aka 2x scaling is a button in several desktops.

And usually set to “auto.”

2x is too big for me. Then adjusting the secondary magnifier to bring it down is still butt ugly. I suppose I've been conditioned by using MacOS for the past 15 years.

Linux Mint's Cinnamon desktop has beta support for 1.25x 1.5x scaling... it's on the right track but has ways to go - the menus don't adjust, there's work to be done for sure.

I wish I had the skills and time to help out, but for now, all I can do is point out the irregularities, I'm afraid.

The root problem is the mismatch between the resolution and physical size of your monitor.

Try a smaller 4k monitor, no bigger than 24". Then, it's not "too big."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876743

Thanks! Yeah, I have a 24". I tried to scale it down some more with an xrandr setting, but the result is somewhat janky.

Cinnamon has a more gradual setting in beta, but the implementation isn't complete yet - the menus don't adjust well - I'm guessing there are some other GTK related quirks to iron out.

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