Why do some want to get rid of GTK2 and all applications that depend on it?

Posted Jan 19, 2026 12:47 UTC (Mon) by pizza (subscriber, #46)
In reply to: Why do some want to get rid of GTK2 and all applications that depend on it? by jcelerier
Parent article: Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky

> I've been using Xft.dpi to adjust DPI since 2014 and it's always worked for me,

Xft.dpi is purely for font scaling, it leaves the X server's core dpi setting unchanged. It also only affects truetype (==scaleable) font rendering, not "classic" X11 fonts which are fixed bitmaps.

See: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/596765/is-x-dpi-...