My laptop has a display resolution of 1366x768. Every now and then, I’ll encounter a window whose default height is over 768 and thus won’t fit entirely within my screen. The GTK file picker comes to mind, though it is resizable without much fuss. But then there are those that cannot be resized and being unable to move the titlebar further up, I am forced to use Alt+F7 to see what’s at the bottom.
I suspect that many programs today are designed to work comfortably on higher resolution displays, but not really tested on smaller ones. Understandably, developers only have so much time and 1366x768 is getting long in the tooth. Just wanted to put this out there since nobody seems to be talking about it.
Most of my laptops are 1366x768. In fact, in a recent KDE survey, the developers got extremely surprised about how prevalent low resolutions were (it was linked around a few months ago). All developers are out of touch a bit, however, let’s not forget that this issue wouldn’t exist if Linux users weren’t allergic to anonymous data-sending with statistics like these. Yes, no one likes privacy invasion and telemetry, but statistics like these are needed by developers.
BTW, on Gnome you can use the ALT button to move windows around when they don’t fit. Still annoying though. Mint has 2 such windows too (their login prefs, and their panel settings pref).
Edit: More info here https://blog.davidedmundson.co.uk/blog/metrics-in-kde-are-they-useful/
This issue doesn’t need statistics to be solved. Developers just need to “As low resolution as possible” in mind
Sorry if my english is bad
Developers will develop so it is right for the majority of their users and I guess they are aiming at 1080p which is mid-range at the moment. This is why hardware stats are important. If they’re anonymous then what’s the problem with them?
Your English is fine.
Developers will develop so it is right for the majority of their users and I guess they are aiming at 1080p which is mid-range at the moment. This is why hardware stats are important.
Fair enough although i still oppose it. We need a better way. My suggestion is developers should develop with “Think about 720p” or “Also think about 720p” principle.
Your English is fine
I am happy hear it.
“Think about 720p” or “Also think about 720p” principle.
The problem with that is if only a few people have 720p then the majority suffer for no real reason. The only way to know for sure is hardware surveys. That said, Linux is known for running on older hardware so maybe it should be taken into consideration. The only way to know for sure is hardware surveys, everything else is assumption.
If, like KDE’s, they are opt in, anonymous, allow you to choose how much information to share, and can’t track an individual over time then I think they are a positive and an easy way to contribute back to a project. If they are like the Manjaro proposal, which is none of those things, then they are a negative and should be opted out of.
"Linux runs fine on old hardware Windows doesn’t support anymore/is too slow for.
Low resolution displays are prelavent.
Surprised pikachu face.
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If you use Xfce, you can make your display bigger than its maximum resolution by using scale in display settings. Chose “Custom” and set it to 0.5/below. Don’t set it to above 1 because it will make your display smaller and don’t set it too low because it will make your display blurry. If you encounter an issue when play game, you must revert your setting.
You can do this too with xrandr but i don’t know if this will work in desktop environment. You may try it if you want. I never try this with wayland.
Sorry if my english is wrong
Edit: change 0.9 to 0.5.
I test using VMs running gnome with resolutions of 1024x768 and never have this issue inside them
I think you should try a tiling or hybrid window manager on laptop. Personally not a fan of them, but that’s one place they fit perfectly.
I have this happen sometimes on various resolutions, saw it a lot when I was on windows too. Idk why it happens.
