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