{"id":28256,"date":"2017-11-28T12:06:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T10:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28256"},"modified":"2017-11-28T12:06:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-28T10:06:38","slug":"fedora-27-and-high-dpi-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/28\/fedora-27-and-high-dpi-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Fedora 27 and high DPI support"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- google_ad_section_start -->\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently updated my laptop to <a href=\"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/15\/fedora-27\/\">Fedora 27<\/a> and since then I had some issues with the rendering of the desktop fonts.\u00a0 At first, everything seemed too large and over-magnified.\u00a0 Resetting the desktop fonts to much smaller sizes helped a bit, but there were still random issues with different applications &#8211; Google Chrome, Skype, etc.\u00a0 \u00a0I think these much be related to the r<a 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Linux&#8217;s desktop look good on high-resolution displays<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/askubuntu.com\/questions\/628961\/change-dpi-on-hidpi-laptop-with-two-external-monitors\">Change DPI on HiDPI laptop with two external monitors<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/bugs.chromium.org\/p\/chromium\/issues\/detail?id=403302\">UI font is too big when point-based font size is incorrect for the configured DPI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.archlinux.org\/index.php\/HiDPI\">ArchLinux HiDPI<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.samalik.com\/make-your-gnome-title-bars-smaller\/\">Make your Gnome title bars smaller<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/Fedora\/comments\/5nfenw\/better_looking_fonts_for_fedora\/\">Better Looking fonts For fedora <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ultimately, the things that solved my problems were the last link (installing better fonts for Fedora), and adjusting the fonts resolution from 142 dots per inch down to 96.<\/p>\n<p><a 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