[Nottingham] New laptop

[Daryl]

Hi Duncan,

Thanks for the tips, i suspect that script will come in useful when I dock
to an external monitor.

I've mostly worked round the issues, some apps (Hiri/Spotify) have inbuilt
scaling settings that solve then problem. Gnome apps are 100% working as
standard, as are Firefox, Java apps. I just have a couple of proprietary
apps that I need for work causing me issues. VMWare Horizon Client for
instance, which is almost unusable.

Overall, it's not been a bad experience, and found it much smoother with
Ubuntu compared to Fedora Core and OpenSUSE.

Daryl.

On Tue, 14 Aug 2018 at 11:27, Duncan via Nottingham <
nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> On 11/08/18 22:41, Daryl via Nottingham wrote:
> > I have a new Dell XPS 15 laptop (i7/32GB/HiDPI screen) which came
> pre-installed with Windows. I had to utterly blast the drive and re-install
> Win 10 as the BIOS was configured in a way as to make Linux installation
> impossible (RAID versus ACPI for instance).
> >
> > I then managed to achieve a happy(ish) Ubuntu/Win 10 dual boot until
> today when the Wi-Fi card has utterly disappeared from Ubuntu. Slightly
> stumped, I can use a Wi-Fi dongle to connect now but not ideal.
> >
> > I had no real choice over the laptop incidentally, but icky BIOS/NVIDIA
> (with awkward fall back to Intel graphics to save power) and many apps not
> supporting HiDPI well has made it a slightly annoying set up so far!
> >
>
> If it helps, you can find the bash script I use to scale Gnome3 and
> Firefox between
> HD monitor and HiDPI monitor screen here[1]
>
> It won't harm Firefox if it is running when you run the script but the new
> setting
> won't take.
>
> You can change the gnome settings in gnome-tweak-tool -- but
> gnome-tweak-tool is
> broken in my Debian atm and I find a one shot command line tool quicker
> and more
> convenient.
>
> [1]
> https://gitlab.com/DomenLasOpenSource/bash-common/blob/master/bin/scale-gnome-for-screen
>
> HTH
> Duncan
>
> > I shall persist as always and I'm sure will end up in Linux nirvana :-)
> >
> > Daryl.
> >
> >
>
>
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