== Link: HiDPI on dual 4K monitors with Linux

Vincent Bernat's article [[HiDPI on dual 4K monitors with Linux
https://vincent.bernat.ch/en/blog/2018-4k-hidpi-dual-screen-linux]] ([[via
https://lobste.rs/s/5tg4jy/hidpi_on_dual_4k_monitors_with_linux]])
is about what you'd expect it to be about and is, as they say,
relevant to my interests. Especially relevant to me is the section
on HiDPI support on Linux with X11, which runs down a collection
of issues and contains a very useful chart about what is supported
in what application and toolkit, which added some information that
I hadn't known.

Note that Bernat's experience with xterm and rxvt don't match mine,
perhaps because we're setting the X-level DPI information in somewhat
different ways. My experience, as covered [[here
../linux/HiDPILinuxHassles]], is that plain X applications using
XFT fonts scale them appropriately once you get the DPI set everywhere
(ie, if you tell xterm to use Monospace-12, you will get an actual
12 point size on your HiDPI monitor, not 12 points at 96 DPI and
thus tiny fonts). If you use bitmap fonts, though, you're in trouble
and unfortunately xterm still uses those by default for some things,
like its popup menus.

(It's the nature of these articles to become out of date over time as
HiDPI support improves and changes, but it's still a useful snapshot and
some of these applications will probably never change.)