Problem is: since there is no global setting that you can tweak, you are left with doing so for every program that you run on the system.Įven worse, some programs, especially older programs that are not updated anymore, may not offer these settings at all. QuiteRSS allows you to change the font size and other parameters in the options. Many programs offer options to deal with this. The text is readable but it puts a strain on the eyes, at least in my case. Take my favorite feed reader QuiteRSS as an example this is how the program displays by default on a 4K monitor: While you can still run these programs, you will notice that text and information is presented in barely readable form (unless you have very good eyesight but even then, you probably hurting your sight over time when doing so). Probably the biggest issue that users who work on 4K monitors will run into is that many Win32 programs don't support high display resolutions. Windows 10 set the display scaling to 150% automatically to ensure that the size of text, apps and other items was not too tiny on the device this worked fine for native Windows controls and some built-in applications. The 4K monitor installed fine on the Windows 10 device the resolution was detected immediately and while Windows loaded a generic driver, it was not difficult to download the latest driver and color profile from LG for the monitor to get it installed. Previously, I could display the majority of sites side-by-side and they would display fine but the times that I had to zoom to display them increased significantly. I used to work on a HP Full HD display with a resolution of 1920x1080 and while that was fine for a long time, I'd run into issues more frequently especially when it came to displaying two browser windows side-by-side.īiggest issue was that many sites increased the minimum width required to display content properly. QuiteRSS isn’t yet that sophisticated.The perils of running Windows 10 on a 4K monitor - gHacks Tech NewsĪs you may know already, I bought a brand new 4K monitor from LG last month to improve my productivity further and check out how good, or not, 4K has become on Windows. So you could set up a series of wide-spectrum feeds, ignore them, but draw on them to create a new single key-phrase delimited feed. Though you may have a workplace that forces your PC to have the Java environment installed, in which case you’ll find that RSSOwl does offer a particularly nice feature - to create new internal keyword-based feeds that selectively draw content from all your other feeds. Java is still an ongoing and massive security risk in Windows. Sadly it requires you to have Java installed to run it, which no one with any brain would install these days. The only other - albeit unacceptable - actively developed desktop option is RSSOwl 2.2.1. So there is now one acceptable actively developed desktop Windows alternative to FeedDemon Pro. QuiteRSS offers search within your feeds, though only at the level of a per-folder search…Īlso font size and font choice, across all display panes. You can also block internal browser pages from setting cookies. After install, for additional security you may want to uncheck: Tools | Options | ‘Help improve QuiteRSS by sending usage information’ and disable ‘Javascript’ and ‘External plugins’ in the internal browser. AdBlock runs by default in the internal browser, and Flash is blocked with a click-to-play button. A basic feature set, so far, but perfectly functional. ![]() One ‘actively developed’ option is the new-ish QuiteRSS. ![]() So I’ve taken another look around for alternative desktop RSS readers that are under active development, seeking something a touch faster but with the same or better features. ![]() Is your 2013 free FeedDemon Pro 4.5 becoming annoying, in terms of its occasional ’15 second freeze’ problem on Windows? It’s nice software but is no longer under development.
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