<div dir="ltr">OK ..thanks for the reply! It is true that I like the simplicity of xfce and lxde. And they work fine with hardware I have had hands on till now. <div><br></div><div>..and the 'bonus question' Any desktop supports two-finger gestures on touchpad (scroll and zoom in particular)?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- Peter</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Josh Boyer <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwboyer@fedoraproject.org" target="_blank">jwboyer@fedoraproject.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 4:47 PM, Peter Laursen <<a href="mailto:jazcyk@gmail.com">jazcyk@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I am in the process of buying a laptop for travel. it should be 13"-14".<br>
> relatively small and lightweight - and still with *power*.<br>
><br>
> I came across:<br>
> <a href="https://www.mm-vision.dk/vision-b4385-baerbar-med-ips-panel" target="_blank">https://www.mm-vision.dk/vision-b4385-baerbar-med-ips-panel</a>. They have the<br>
> option to purchase with no OS installed (hooray!) and you can choose between<br>
> different CPUs, RAM configs and disk systems. It is also not very expensive<br>
> specs taken into consideration, really.<br>
><br>
> But monitor is 3200x1800 pixels on a 13" monitor. And that is the problem.<br>
> This machine is designed for Win8, where the 'tiled interface' is DPI-aware<br>
> and will scale automatically. I plan to install a dual-boot of Win7 and<br>
> Linux (SuSE or Fedora), and they will both be completely hopeless to use on<br>
> this system as everything (icons, controls) will be extremely small in<br>
> almost every interface and application.<br>
<br>
</span>You said in a different email that you use XFCE. That might be your<br>
problem. I have two laptops with high resolution monitors and GNOME 3<br>
scales things very well. F21 even more than F20, which was already<br>
quite usable.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> I dont think Linux Desktop people takes this seriously enough (or they do<br>
> not communicate it). It will IMO take ~12 months and most laptops sold will<br>
<br>
</span>HiDPI support has been touted as a feature in Fedora for the past two<br>
releases. For F21 it's explicitly listed as one for Workstation:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_release_announcement#Support_for_high_resolution_displays_.28HiDPI.29" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F21_release_announcement#Support_for_high_resolution_displays_.28HiDPI.29</a><br>
<span class=""><br>
> Are there any efforts anywhere in the Linux world considering support for<br>
> high monitor resolutions (auto-scaling based on DPI) like Mac/Retina and<br>
> Win8 has? What Linux desktops/window managers have it in progress? Does<br>
> anybody know?<br>
<br>
</span>GNOME and I believe KDE both are working on this continually. Both<br>
are already very usable. I have no idea what XFCE is doing, nor any<br>
of the other desktop environments.<br>
<span class=""><br>
> What say? Was it too provocative?<br>
<br>
</span>Maybe just misinformed. Try GNOME or KDE?<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
josh<br>
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