[mythtv-users] HiDPI display

James Abernathy jfabernathy at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 20:24:37 UTC 2023


On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 3:01 PM James Abernathy <jfabernathy at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 11:06 AM Doug Larrick <doug at parkercat.org> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have a laptop with a 4k display that I run at 200% (HiDPI mode),
>> running GNOME on Wayland. Up-to-date Debian testing. This worked great
>> with MythTV frontend until recently.
>>
>> What I see now is that mythfrontend makes a window (or fullscreen
>> surface) that's 2x the display's size (in both dimensions), with the UI
>> and video in the lower left quadrant.
>> If I specify --geometry=1920x1080, the window fits on the screen, but
>> again the UI and video occupy only the lower left quadrant.
>>
>> If I turn off HiDPI everything works properly -- but of course other
>> apps are way too small to be usable.
>>
>> Unfortunately I don't know what component changed: MythTV (32-fixes),
>> Qt5, and xwayland all got updated around the time this broke. Has
>> anyone seen (and hopefuly fixed) something like this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Doug
>>
>
> I have a similar problem. I have a 4K display and I run it at 4K with 200%
> scaling.  Under X11 Plasma mythfrontend fills the screen as normal. If I
> login with a Wayland session the mythtv desktop is 1/4 the size it should
> be and it's in the bottom left of the display. I normally use X11 but
> sometimes play with Wayland.  I'm running EndeavourOS KDE Plasma with X11
> and that is what the EOS people recommend since Wayland and KDE are not
> completely working for all corner cases. This must be one of those cases.
>
> Jim A
>

And BTW, this hardware is Intel Iris Graphics:

Operating System: EndeavourOS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.15.7
Kernel Version: 6.1.3-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × 11th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-1165G7 @ 2.80GHz
Memory: 15.0 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® Xe Graphics

Jim A
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