On 20180409 05:03, ken wrote:
> On 04/07/2018 05:22 AM, Maarten wrote:
>> I recently installed "Cinnamon Desktop" on my laptop, but the weird
>> thing is all the menu items are really small and up close to each
>> other. See the attachments, my desktop has the same packages installed
>> and doesn't have this problem, I'm running nvidia drive 390.48 from
>> elrepo. I tried installing the other drivers but those don't seem to
>> be compatible with my system. Any one have an idea why my menu items
>> are looking like this?
>>
> It may be because you have a relatively large screen and/or your screen
> is set to a relatively high resolution.  If so, this has been a
> long-standing issue:  Video drivers set the size of screen object based
> on pixels.  Of course those objects should be sized instead according to
> their visibility to humans.  To fix this, you could set the screen to an
> inferior resolution.  Or perhaps there is a setting in the video driver
> to make screen objects larger.  Some apps also have settings for larger
> icons and/or text.

Conceptually you should be able to tell the windowing system that you have, say, 
a 2000 by 3000 display that is 20" by 15" and the display would scale fonts and 
images appropriately. A dpi setting should cover this. And ideally it would be 
the same dpi on both axes to get images looking their best. I've never had to 
worry about that as I feel the bigger the display the better. So I don't know if 
X11 supports this concept. If not, it damn well should if it purports to be 
useful for desktops, notebooks, laptops, and everything else.

{o.o}  Joanne "Opinionated" Dow