Maxim Cournoyer <[email protected]> writes: > Hi, > > "Graysen Pitts" <[email protected]> writes: > >> Hello, >> >> I am using Guix system with the GNOME desktop environment on my >> computer. I am using a 4k television as my display (resolution of >> 3840x2160). In order to comfortably view what is on-screen, I have >> display scaling set to 200% in GNOME settings. This scales GNOME and >> GTK apps like GNU IceCat fine, but Emacs and QT apps like QDirStat are >> still displayed at 100% scale. > > I use the same resolution/scaling factor and I'm also on GNOME, so I can > help a bit. Most modern GTK applications, especially GTK 4 ones, should > have no problem. > > For QT, I'm not sure, I think it should work if you render via wayland > (and have the qt-wayland package installed in your profile). To force > wayland I set this in my ~/.bash_profile: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > export QT_QPA_PLATFORM=wayland;xcb # for Qt 5 > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > For Emacs you need to use the "pure" GTK build, whatever that means (and > I'm not sure why it's not the default):
Its not the default because it has issues on X11! As is shown in a popup when you try it on X11. > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > guix package -r emacs -i emacs-pgtk > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > [...] > >> Since I am already diverting from my original issue of "some apps >> aren't scaling properly" to "I can't use the gsettings command", I'm >> hoping someone here may have a solution to the scaling issue without >> going down the gsettings rabbit hole. If not, how would I resolve the >> conflicting entries for glib so I can get the gsettings command? > > I don't think gsettings plays a role in my setup, at least when it comes > to scaling. It works rather well, but I'm hoping GNOME 48 will make it > even nicer. > > -- > Thanks, > Maxim
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