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run_scaled
Run an X application scaled via xpra. Useful on hidpi screens.
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Run an X application scaled via xpra. Useful on hidpi screens.
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Observed mentions: 2017-11-15 20:28:28 UTC to 2024-07-08 13:57:55 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
4 sourcesYou can try this script which uses xvfb/xpra to upscale old apps: https://github.com/kaueraal/run_scaled
I've never used it, but a lot of people seem to recommend it.
In You can legally get and run WordPerfect for freeFirst I had to go into the unity settings to set scaling on gnome apps to 2. Then it was a per-app thing after that.
Chromium scales on its own, but some sites are too small, like hacker news. But it does remember zoom settings and 125% works here.
For Steam I found a skin that makes it slightly larger but still too small, so I just run it in big picture mode.
I run xmonad + gnome fallback so I get easy notification icons and media button support. The panel needs to be set to 48 pixels in height, but haven't figured out how to get all the icons to be full size. I set the xmonad border width to 3px.
Gimp has a hidpi skin but it doesn't work very well.
This script will scale things up and it works in a pinch but isn't very elegant:
https://github.com/kaueraal/run_scaled
In Dell’s gamble on Linux laptops has paid off> and lots of older X classics that are unlikely to be updated.
https://github.com/kaueraal/run_scaled
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