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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