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Tiny Core 16.0 Alpha 1 Testing
Juanito:
--- Quote from: MikeLockmoore on February 24, 2025, 05:52:53 PM ---Yes, if I have Xft.dpi at the default resolution of 96.0 dots per inch, the titlebars look fine and the window size buttons are visible. I've also discovered that the Ctrl+"Plus" really means you need to use the shift key to get the "+" character (Ctrl + Shift + "+") to make the windows grow, and it is perfectly capable of growing above 100%. However, the window title bar and buttons do not scale with the other FLTK GUI elements inside the window, either smaller or larger. Maybe this is OK if the Xft.dpi setting in the .Xdefaults file was honored by FLWM for the window frame & decoration.
I must say, the scaled-up text for scaled-up button labels, etc. looks quite nice and smooth. The ControlPanel app is scaled to 200% in this screen shot and Fluff at 150% I think.
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Does the scaling require a scalable font defined in flwm/config.h or will it work with a fixed font?
Juanito:
flwm/flwm_topside in the tc-16.x x86 repo have been recompiled against the latest fltk-1.3 and the font has been set to the flwm default by un-commenting the following in config.h, which was commented out previously.
#define TITLE_FONT "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*"
Juanito:
Using tc-16.x and Xorg-7.7, I can start the gui once, although there is a faint coloured band at the top of the screen, which disappears once the gui is fully started.
If I try to exit to the console prompt I get a blank screen or a screen with a couple of green squares only recoverable by cycling the power.
This is on a dell e7240 laptop using intel haswell hd graphics 4400.
This seems to be a worsening problem with x86, it doesn't happen with x86_64.
Also with x86 the Xorg-7.7-3d/modesetting driver combination will not start, but Xorg-7.7-3d/xf86-video-intel will start, whereas both start with x86_64.
It's my understanding that xf86-video-intel has been depreciated in favour of modesetting.
MikeLockmoore:
--- Quote from: Juanito on February 25, 2025, 06:08:35 AM ---flwm/flwm_topside in the tc-16.x x86 repo have been recompiled against the latest fltk-1.3 and the font has been set to the flwm default by un-commenting the following in config.h, which was commented out previously.
#define TITLE_FONT "-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*"
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On the x86_64 side, I've been experimenting with adding some fonts. I used the notosans-fonts-ttf.tcz, plus I downloaded and manually installed two other font faces from Google's online font browser & repository... "Roboto" (similar to Lexi Sans and Noto Sans), and "Rancher" which is very stylized. In this screenshot, I built FLWM to use Rancher for the titlebars, and I set the font size to something intentionally overly large to see the letter shapes more clearly. Howdy, partner!
Rich:
Hi MikeLockmoore
Open a terminal and try this under fltk-1.4:
--- Code: ---export FLTK_SCALING_FACTOR=1.3
apps
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Does that help you with regard to scaling fltk apps?
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