Aven on hiDPI screens

[Graham Mullan]

I have been suffering this problem on the 2736 x 1824 screen on my Surface Pro 4 tablet PC. The only workaround that works for me is to just use aven on my much larger & lower resolution desktop PCs. I, too would like to know of a better way.

Graham

-----Original Message-----
From: Survex <survex-bounces at survex.com> On Behalf Of Wookey
Sent: 05 September 2021 22:45
To: Survex User Group <survex at survex.com>
Subject: Aven on hiDPI screens

I now have a HiDPI screen: 3840x2160 and 344mm x 194mm or about 283DPI (or 11 dots per mm).

This has caused many applications to become extremely hard to use due to unreadable text and tiny icons. Aven is one of them. I have got java, and GTK apps as well as the desktop and terminal stuff to work adequately, but I can't work out what is needed for wxGTK apps like aven.

Has anyone found out how to make the aven text a readable size on such displays? (menu items, icons, the survey tree and labels are all very tiny).

Ideally just setting the X DPI would make everything DTRT, but it doesn't. Clearly far too many things are actually specified in pixels, not sizes.

Wookey
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