John Flinchbaugh Blog: Scaling for Small Displays

I bought a very small laptop to use with radio work in the field, and the screen resolution is a bit small (1366x768). Pair the small display with current desktop environments' tendency toward chunky, touch-friendly interfaces, and it doesn’t allow one to cram much on the screen.

My desktop environment is Gnome, so I slimmed it down with some stylesheets:

headerbar {
  margin: 0 1em 0 1em;
  padding-top: 0;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  border-width: 0px;
  font-size: 12pt;
  min-height: 0px;
}

headerbar * {
  margin: 0;
  padding-top: 0;
  padding-bottom: 0;
  border-radius: 0;
  border-width: 0px;
  min-height: 0px;
}

headerbar box {
  padding: 0.1em 0.5em 0.1em 0.5em;
}

WSJT-X is a QT app, so I scaled the fonts there to make everything fit better by setting the DPI in a launch script:

#!/bin/sh

export QT_FONT_DPI=75
/usr/bin/wsjtx