I've been using Solus Budgie with a single 1080p monitor but am considering upgrading to a 32" 4K monitor.

How does Budgie do with DPI scaling? How about the Gnome apps, and generally speaking, the stuff in the Solus repos? Also Steam?

If anyone has something like this as their setup, please let me know about your experience. Thanks!

    I have been trying a lot of distros for the last few days, and HiDpi support was one of my top priorities since I was installing them all on MacBook Pro (mid-2014) which has HiDpi screen and is also connected to external 27" 4K Dell monitor.
    I can say that Solus has absolute best HiDpi support - on par with macOS - at least with all the apps that are preinstalled.
    From other apps, I installed MailSpring and Visual Studio Code - and they both scale perfectly, but I did not try anything else so far.
    Only other distro that got close to perfection was Linux Mint Cinnamon and I currently can not decide which one to keep :-)

    Send me a 4K monitor and I'll let you know. 😃

    tomocafe
    I'm on a MacBook Pro Retina + Samsung 32" 4K external monitor during working hours.

    I think Solus Budgie work great with HiDpi. The only scaling issue I have is within some snap apps, and some 3rd party applications (Enpass for an example).
    Everything in the stable repo works like a charm.

    PS. I have used Solus for years with this setup, so I have tested a lot of different applications.

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      tomocafe Scaling has improved on Solus 4. But you have to scale it yourself upon first installation because stuff looks tiny in 4K.

          Generally fine. I just needed to go to the display settings and change the scaling to 200%. I also needed to zoom in on web pages a bit (i use my monitor more like a TV though. I sit further away.

          Steam also has a hi-dpi setting that needs to be changed if you use it.

          The only issue i have is that Icons on the bottom right (like the network and steam icon) will go missing when i switch the monitor off and back on. This didn't happen when i was using a 1080P monitor and 100% scaling. I think it has something to do with the scaling setting.

          But other than that it works fine in my experience.

            [deleted] no need, it scales automatically. Didn’t touch a thing after installation regarding scaling.

              So I just made the switch, it went mostly OK, but wasn't perfect OOTB.

              1. For some reason, on first boot with the new monitor, with scaling set to 100% (what I had before), I couldn't click on the system tray, user indicator, etc., located on the right hand side of my bottom panel. The issue went away after setting scaling to 200%. Can't reproduce it anymore by switching back to 100% though. 🤷
              2. I wish there was something in between 100% and 200% DPI scaling. I think 150 would be perfect for me, but I guess I'll have to settle with 200. I did read this is a limitation of mutter, but also read that they're working on fractional DPI scaling. Hopefully that gets implemented and pulled in soon as more and more people transition to higher DPI monitors.
              3. LightDM looks tiny, as it doesn't follow GNOME DPI scaling setting. Would be nice to make this automatic, but probably an upstream issue.

              Neumie Thanks for the tip about Steam, for posterity, the setting is at Steam > Settings > Interface > Enlarge text and icons based on monitor size (requires restart)

                  tomocafe I think 150 would be perfect for me

                  Try gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor 1.5 - Reset if it's not working with 1.0

                  As for lightdm, try the following:

                  1. Install xrdb sudo eopkg install xrdb
                  2. Open a terminal and run xrdb -query | grep dpi
                  3. Open /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/x.dm.slick-greeter.gschema.xml
                  4. Find by key-name="xft-dpi" type="d"
                  5. Replace the default value with the DPI from the xrdb output

                      Justin The lightdm steps aren't working for me, it's still tiny. :\ Any ideas? Thanks!