A good move I recently made was to sell my MacBook Pro, M2; and purchase a Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon, several years old. One of the best features of this new laptop is a HiDPI (High Dots Per Inch) screen with a resolution of something like 3200x1800. It's a remarkable display for other reasons, which I will not go into here. The blacks are incredible.
With my usual Manjaro i3wm, this means that the type is almost unreadable. With the guidance of several source on the Internet, I was able to cajol the system into somewhat useful settings that most software works fine with. Along they way, several references passed me by about Wayland, a newer graphical setup that X11.
I am reluctant to make huge changes to a long time stalwart system, but finally I have begun to experiment with Sway, a workalike system to i3, and Hyprland, a fancier tiling window manager, working on top of Wayland. Both, I am happy to report, work nicely with this HiDPI screen.
So I installed Manjaro's Sway edition. So far, so good. Now I'm at the point of trying to configure pop-up/drop-down floating windows for Kitty, Emacs, R, orage (probably impossible, but this is the best little calendar app I have found. Once I have set the month, and popped it back up, the same month is show. Very useful for calendar work), and a ham radio clock, that is actually of little use.
HiDPI is not a problem.
When I install a new distro, one of the first things I do is set the user id to "1004", as well as the groupid. Consequently, the home directory of my previous setup and user are completely accessible, because this was the case for the previous login as well. I never duplicate the login, out of worry that the dot file tweaks will be incompatible with anything different.
So far, so good.
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