{"id":872,"date":"2009-10-22T12:33:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T04:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/?p=872"},"modified":"2009-10-22T12:33:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T04:33:16","slug":"xp-style-dpi-scaling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/?p=872","title":{"rendered":"XP Style DPI Scaling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever PCs I owned, the 1st customization I will do is to change the DPI scaling (except Mac which don&#8217;t have this option, I am still finding apps which can do this). For 1920&#215;1200, I use 144 DPI and 139 DPI for 1600&#215;1200. Of this, there&#8217;s a XP Style DPI Scaling checkbox which I must check because :<\/p>\n<p>1. Checking the option causes non-DPI scaling aware applications to be scaled similar to the way they would have been in XP<\/p>\n<p>2. Un check this option will make some non-DPI aware applications slightly blurry due to scaling effects of the composer<\/p>\n<p>References : <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathies.com\/weblog\/?p=908\">http:\/\/www.mathies.com\/weblog\/?p=908<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PS: Under the 144 DPI, icons in firefox will be become a mess (very large), solution :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>about:config<\/li>\n<li>right click-&gt;new-&gt;integer<\/li>\n<li>name : layout.css.dpi<\/li>\n<li>value : 120<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For whatever PCs I owned, the 1st customization I will do is to change the DPI scaling (except Mac which don&#8217;t have this option, I am still finding apps which can do this). For 1920&#215;1200, I use 144 DPI and 139 DPI for 1600&#215;1200. Of this, there&#8217;s a XP Style DPI Scaling checkbox which I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[34,30],"class_list":["post-872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","tag-dpi","tag-windows","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":873,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872\/revisions\/873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.ie.cuhk.edu.hk\/~sfluk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}