{"id":43611,"date":"2023-01-25T18:14:02","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=43611"},"modified":"2023-01-25T18:17:07","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T18:17:07","slug":"dippi-monitor-hidpi-lodpi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2023\/01\/dippi-monitor-hidpi-lodpi\/","title":{"rendered":"Dippi &#8211; Tells if the Laptop\/External Monitor Best Choice (HiDPI or LoDPI)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/monitor-icon.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-43612\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/monitor-icon-250x250.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/monitor-icon-250x250.webp 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/monitor-icon-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/monitor-icon-600x600.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/monitor-icon-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/monitor-icon.webp 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Going to buy a new monitor or laptop, or want to calculate whether it&#8217;s a HiDPI display? Here&#8217;s a handy app can help!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I previously thought that 4K and 8K displays are HiDPI, but 720p that I&#8217;m being using is LoDPI. It&#8217;s 100% wrong! HiDPI, stands for High Dots Per Inch, also known by Apple&#8217;s &#8220;Retina Display&#8221;. Meaning screens with a high resolution in a relatively small format.<\/p>\n<p>A HiDPI monitor may be good for displaying photo images or playing FPS games, but not all software behaves well in high-resolution mode yet. If you&#8217;re going to buy a monitor or calculate existing display DPI, then here&#8217;s a good app for choice.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s &#8216;Dippi&#8217;, a free and open-source GTK4 application developed by a GNOME Foundation member.<\/p>\n<p>With it, you just need to tell: <i>laptop<\/i> or <i>desktop<\/i>, <i>monitor size<\/i> (inches), and <i>screen resolution<\/i>. Then, it shows you aspect ratio and DPI value, as well as <b>display\u2019s density.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-light.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43613\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-light-600x304.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-light-600x304.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-light-300x152.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-light-768x390.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-light.webp 891w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Very Low DPI,<\/li>\n<li>Fairly Low DPI,<\/li>\n<li>Ideal for LoDPI,<\/li>\n<li>Potentially Problematic,<\/li>\n<li>Ideal for HiDPI,<\/li>\n<li>Fairly High for HiDPI, or<\/li>\n<li>Too High DPI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Each value has some texts below to tell the text and UI feeling (too small or too large) at typical viewing distances. As a GTK4 app, it looks good in Ubuntu, Fedora and other Linux with GNOME desktop. And, it automatically changes the UI color between light and dark mode, to follow system color scheme.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-dark.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43615\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-dark-600x304.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-dark-600x304.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-dark-300x152.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-dark-768x390.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/dippi-dark.webp 891w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3>How to Install Dippi<\/h3>\n<p>Dippi is also available as an online service, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/cassidyjames.com\/dippi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">visit this page<\/a> to analyze your display.<\/p>\n<p>For most Linux users, it&#8217;s available to install as universal flatpak package in <a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/details\/com.github.cassidyjames.dippi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flathub.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ubuntu user can do following steps one by one to install the package:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Firstly, press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> on keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command to make sure Flatpak is enabled:\n<pre>sudo apt install flatpak<\/pre>\n<p>For the old Ubuntu 18.04, add this <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~flatpak\/+archive\/ubuntu\/stable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PPA repository<\/a> before running apt install command.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39141\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-600x229.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-600x229.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-300x115.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy-768x294.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apt-flatpak-jammy.webp 777w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Then, install the application by running command:\n<pre>flatpak install https:\/\/dl.flathub.org\/repo\/appstream\/com.github.cassidyjames.dippi.flatpakref<\/pre>\n<p>Like normal apps, you can search for and launch it from either start menu or &#8216;Activities&#8217; overview depends on your desktop environment.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/flatpak-dippi.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-43616\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/flatpak-dippi-600x407.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/flatpak-dippi-600x407.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/flatpak-dippi-300x203.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/flatpak-dippi-768x521.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/flatpak-dippi.webp 786w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>How to Remove Dippi<\/h3>\n<p>To remove the app installed as Flatpak, open terminal and run command:<\/p>\n<pre>flatpak uninstall --delete-data com.github.cassidyjames.dippi<\/pre>\n<p>Also clear useless runtime via <code>flatpak uninstall --unused<\/code>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Going to buy a new monitor or laptop, or want to calculate whether it&#8217;s a HiDPI display? 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