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wok.oblomov.eu is a personal blog at wok.oblomov.eu about programming and systems. Since 2016, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Google is killing the open web”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for posts on mixed-DPI display support in X11, plotting charts with XSLT and CSS, and Google's threat to RSS and the open web. Comments cite these posts as references only.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- /tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/5 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2019-01-10
- Google is killing the open web3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-08-18
What Hacker News says?
Are you sure? http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/ I can't say I've played around with it, but the above seems to indicate that such support is available - but that you might have issues with apps not supporting it (or reporting their DPI properly). There also might be problems with other layers above raw X (?) - but it seems like X itself does support it in some manner? I once had X supporting two mice o…
Comment linking /tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
on “So Long, Macbook. Hello Again, Linux”Submitted Google is killing the open web, part 2 as a story · 418 points
HN discussionCan CSS be used to produce plots from XML data? https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-xslt/ https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/plotting-sparklines-xslt/
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on “"Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"”Submitted Google is killing the open web as a story · 193 points
HN discussionX11 has been able to do mixed resolution from the beginning. http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
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on “Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?”Submitted Mixed DPI in X11 as a story · 36 points
HN discussionX11 has had this since day one. However the trade offs to actually employing it are... unfortunate. It leans real hard on the application to actually cross screen boundaries and very few applications were willing to put the work in. so xrandr was invented. which does more of what people want with multiple screens by treating them as parts of one large virtual screen but you loose the per screen dpi. http://wok.oblom…
Comment linking /tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
on “Ancient X11 scaling technology”Submitted Google is killing the open web as a story · 5 points
HN discussion"Compositors are an optional component. I have never run one myself since they don't add anything of value. So any time someone says 'the X server only talks to the compositor' I'm like 'lol what compositor'." Can't you see how this is self-fulfilling though? People don't use X compositors because they suck and cause issues, so then you have people saying they don't use it because it doesn't add value. Well, yeah, c…
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on “How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014)”Submitted Cross-make selection: conditional Makefiles supporting both BSD and GNU make as a story · 3 points
HN discussionX has had its OpenGL extension available since 1992. Your argument is like saying "Windows 1.0 came out before Direct X even existed, so of course you can't play modern games on Windows 10". As new things came out, they added support for it. Compositors are an optional component. I have never run one myself since they don't add anything of value. So any time someone says "the X server only talks to the compositor" I…
Comment linking /tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
on “How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (2014)”This is not the fault of X11 since it exposes all necessary data via the xrandr extention[1]. It is just toolkits like Gtk that choose to ignore that information on X11 but not on Wayland. 1.: http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
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on “Wayland in 2021”Do any desktop system handle mixed DPI well? I mainly use Linux so I don't know, but one of my work laptops have windows on it and it freaks out every time I connect it to a 4k monitor. At least in linux I can use triggers and xrandr [1] to manage it even if it's not pretty, never figured out how to do it automatically in windows. Edit: I am using KDE/Qt apps for 99% of my gui stuff. Gnome etc might be worse. [1] ht…
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on “Wayland in 2021”X11 has supported mixed dpi from nearly the very beginning. http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
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on “Show HN: Bonk, a command-line tool for X11 window management”The funny thing about this myth is that wayland does not even try to support Mixed DPI setups, the only thing it supports is, as you put it, janky scaling. Not that X is any better in the end but at least it has the data available if any application wants to try to do correct Mixed dpi (nobody does) http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/ So in yet another case of worse is better, wayland has the reputation…
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on “Wayland set the Linux Desktop back by 10 years”The best article I have found about mixed dpi on x11 is. http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
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on “Gnome developer proposes removing the X11 session”Nice work on the app. I hope that Google doesn't kill RSS therefore rendering your app worthless, right? https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/
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on “Show HN: UpBeat – an AI-Enhanced RSS/Atom Reader that only shows you good news”My favored article on the subject is http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/
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on “Yserver: A modern X11 server written in Rust”The funny thing is that X11 can actually do heterogeneous dpi and Wayland can't. Unfortunately you will never find yourself in a situation to actually use a mixed dpi X11 setup (you lose your homogeneous desktop) and Wayland is better at spoofing it (for whatever reason fractional scaling works better in Wayland). http://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/mixed-dpi-x11/ My favorite quote from that writeup. "If you think this…
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on “Separating the Wayland Compositor and Window Manager”