5:09 p.m.
Hi,
I have now seen gretl operate on a Laptop with a 1920x1080 resolution on
a fairly small screen, thus high pixel density. Gretl's window and the
fonts in there look noticeably less sharp / more pixelated than other
programs (say, more "native" Windows programs). I suppose this is a GTK
limitation? Or is there something that can be done?
thanks
sven
9:53 p.m.
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
I have now seen gretl operate on a Laptop with a 1920x1080
resolution on a fairly small screen, thus high pixel density.
Gretl's window and the fonts in there look noticeably less sharp /
more pixelated than other programs (say, more "native" Windows
programs). I suppose this is a GTK limitation? Or is there
something that can be done?
There is something that can be done, but I need to refer back to my
notes for details; I'll post again tomorrow.
Anyway, I've seen exactly what you describe, since I have a Lenovo
Yoga with smallish screen and 1920x1080 resolution. The nasty look
of gretl (and also a bunch of older Windows programs) is because
Windows is running in a mode that can be described as "Fake a lower
resolution since your laptop is designed for watching movies rather
than actually computing" -- and GTK is not prepared to cooperate
with that mode.
The options are basically: (a) choose a lower resolution for the
display (if there's one available with a suitable aspect ratio), or
(b) keep the high-res setting but disable the Windows lower-res
fakery. I've chosen (b): everything is nice and sharp, but somewhat
smaller than one might wish. So long as my eyesight is OK, this
works for me ;-)
Allin
1:23 p.m.
Am 22.02.2019 um 22:53 schrieb Allin Cottrell:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
There is something that can be done, but I need to refer back to my
notes for details; I'll post again tomorrow.
OK, thanks.
(b): everything is nice and sharp, but somewhat smaller than one
might
wish. So long as my eyesight is OK, this works for me ;-)
I'll wait for your notes, but since the fonts can be adjusted within
gretl (both menu and fixed-width fonts) I don't quite understand why it
would be necessarily small. Or is it just the icons you're referring to?
-sven
3:13 p.m.
On Fri, 22 Feb 2019, Allin Cottrell wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> I have now seen gretl operate on a Laptop with a 1920x1080 resolution on a
> fairly small screen, thus high pixel density. Gretl's window and the fonts
> in there look noticeably less sharp / more pixelated than other programs
> (say, more "native" Windows programs). I suppose this is a GTK limitation?
> Or is there something that can be done?
There is something that can be done, but I need to refer back to my notes for
details; I'll post again tomorrow.
Here's what I did on Windows 10: Desktop right-click -> Display
settings -> Scale and layout -> set to 100%.
One can set the Resolution to 1600x900, which preserves the aspect
ratio -- things will be bigger but not so sharp.
Allin
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