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Apple has announced a laptop with "retina display" = 2880x1800 pixels resolution on 15 inches.
If one were to load Ubuntu on such a machine, it would probably be unreadably micro-texted as long as Ubuntu treats one pixel as one pixel.

Would it be possible to adjust Ubuntu to use such a display in a meaningful way? Difficult? Easy?

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Torben Gundtofte-Bruun
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It will work if you adjust the DPI settings for the fonts. You have several options:

  1. Using gnome-tweak-tool: Advanced settings > Fonts > Text scaling factor
  2. Using dconf-editor: org > gnome > desktop > interface > text-scaling-factor
Frantique
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  • Will this only scale the text or also the GUI widgets like buttons, borders, minimize/maximize, status icons in the toolbar, etc.? Will the cursor also be scaled or remain miniaturized? – Torben Gundtofte-Bruun Jun 12 '12 at 10:00
  • You can try it on your actual system. – Frantique Jun 12 '12 at 10:12
  • I tried this with a 1600x900 laptop before, in 11.04 i think, and the results were not impressive - a lot of widgets/screen features seem to have fixed pixel size and some apps didn't respect the font settings anyway (and some only for parts of their UI, which was quite strange). Love to hear if someone has experiences with a more recent Ubuntu.. – drevicko Nov 25 '12 at 23:50
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Sample of resolution change through command line

/usr/bin/xrandr --output eDP1 --mode 1920x1200

Simply run

xrandr

to list all available resolution

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