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Ancient X11 scaling technology


People keep telling me that X11 doesn’t support DPI scaling, or fractional scaling, or multiple monitors, or something. There’s nothing you can do to make it work.

Turns out the hardest part of this adventure was trying to hold an uncooperative tape measure in place with one hand while trying to get a decent, or not, photo with the other. So if we learn anything today, it’s that you shouldn’t use a consumer LG TV for accurately measuring the scale of structural engineering diagrams, at least not without further calibration. I woke up this morning not knowing precisely how to draw a scaled circle, having never done so before, but armed with a vague sense that surely it must be possible, because come on of course it is, I got it working.

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