Re: fluxbox styles for HiDPI screens

Could you not just customise your style of choice? It's pretty
straightforward (and fun!) - 'man fluxbox-style' gives you the basics;
see also https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fluxbox/Style_guide

Regards,
Lionel

On 21 February 2017 at 10:57, Michael M. Tung <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Massimo,
>
> you're absolutely right. I would miss Fluxbox, and therefore I
> am trying to avoid any of those 'other' window managers (clunky
> with lots of additional libraries)...
>
> I did minimally rescale the resolution in X windows with xrandr,
> but there is a reasonable limit, of course. Otherwise: Why have
> a HiDPI screen?
>
> Without 'HiDPI Windows scaling' a good compromise would be a
> style which doubles the size of titlebars etc.
>
> Best,
>       Michael
>
> P.S.: I sent a screen photo requested by higuita, but the attachment
>       is large. It will take a while to pass the fluxbox-users
>       moderator (hopefully!).
>
> Massimo Canonico [[email protected]] wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having the same problem and in the mean while I'm using another windows
>> manager, but I'm missing fluxbox so much.
>>
>> The other windows manager fix the problem by set the "HiDPI Windows scaling"
>> to 2.
>>
>> I did not find a similar option in Fluxbox.
>>
>> Another way could be to use xrandr and the option --scale.
>>
>> M
>>
>> On 02/21/2017 02:36 AM, higuita wrote:
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 00:17:09 +0100, "Michael M. Tung" <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> > > It is possible to increase the fonts size with overlays, but I am
>> > > looking for a convenient way to also scale bigger the title bars
>> > > (increasing the height of the bars so that the bigger fonts fit in
>> > > comfortably).
>> >     I do not have a HiDPI screenm but when i increase the font size,
>> >     the height of their respective bars also increase to match the
>> >     font. Have you tried it? Can you make a screenshot if it is wrong
>> >
>> > higuita
>> >
>> >
>
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