Amanda on Nostr: I came into the office the other day and my office mate explained that chrome on ...
I came into the office the other day and my office mate explained that chrome on Vanilla Ubuntu on her new laptop looked unreadably large on the external screen and fine on the internal one. Fortunately I knew enough (more than I ever wanted to or should have been forced to learn) about windowing on Linux and could find a solution.
But…why are you like this? How did “no web browser is usable with an external screen with higher or lower DPI” get past QA?!
Write up:
https://amandastjerna.se/memex/wayland-chromium/Published at
2023-12-15 21:06:24Event JSON
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