Re: Minoterm scaling issue

On Thu, Sep 25, 2025, at 8:46 AM, Bernd Paysan wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 24. September 2025, 20:59:13 Mitteleurop=C3=A4ische Somme=
rzeit schrieb=20
> Ethan Azariah:
>> I've just got a tablet running LineageOS 14.1, Android 7.1.2. Minoter=
m is
>> scaled as if it were a phone; unreasonably large on the 10" screen, In
>> portrait mode it has 47 columns, in landscape 65 columns, too few for=
 a
>> block editor with line numbers.
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>> What could I change to scale it differently?
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>> Can I get the native pixel size of the display within gforth?
>
> Yes, Gforth does that. Use
>
> screen-diag f.
>
> to get the screen diagonal size in mm.  I guess your Android simply li=
es to=20
> you, which results in wrong scaling.

Ah, yeah, it reports the size as 96mm when it's about 9.6 inches.

>  You can then set the FValue DEFAULT-
> SCALE to something else than 1. E.g.
>
> 0.5e to default-scale terminal-scale-me
>
> will give you twice as many columns and rows.

That's easy to use, I'm really happy with it. Thanks!

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