On Sun, Dec 24, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Jerome BENOIT <sphericaltrian...@rezozer.net> wrote: > Hello, I am currently migrating to a HiDPI box (akda Retina box). > > Since the arrival of GNOME3, I have used Xfce as an alternative to GNOME[2]: > I have been happy so far with this choice. Right now, I migrating to > a retina box: it appears, unfortunately, that Xfce support for HiDPI is low. > small (if not tiny) icons there, big fonts here; and so forth. > I have tried to fix it to stick to Xfce; after all Xfce is lightweight. > But the issue is that X is not yet ready to manage HiDPI properly: > a lot of tweaks are needed to get something almost readable. > > I read that Cinnamon and MATE, both former clones of GNOME[2], have HiDPI in > mind: > is there any other possibility ? which one is the best in terms of weight and > HiDPI support ?
If you can pull yourself from a Windows 95-era start menu and always-visible panels, try the natural and more modern and updated successor: Gnome 3. Really. I've never found the claims of Xfce being lightweight to hold up under scrutiny. It's often more sluggish than Gnome 3 on the clients I've compared. Right now I'm having the most issues with Xwayland here on debian testing, but that should be orthogonal to the choice of desktop environment. I should start another rant about debian's handling of wayland in a different thread I guess! :)
