Questions tagged [dpi]
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Window Sizing on High DPI Screen?
I have a 4K monitor set up for 2x scaling using the GNOME tweak tool. When I open PlayOnLinux the menus are nearly untraversable and when I go through the menus to install a game, the next and exit ...
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Mouse scrolling jumps up and down (very uneven and hard to control) in Ubuntu 15.10
I have Ubuntu 15.10. Page scrolling is very hard to control with this mouse. When attempting to scroll with the mouse wheel, the scrolling sometimes moves erratically and often jumps back in reverse. ...
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icon scaling seems to work partially on a dell 4k display. I'm using ubuntu 14.04
a newbie here.
I'm using a dell 4k display on ubuntu 14.04(up-to-date so far).
I have already followed the instructions on this link - Adapt Ubuntu to a high-DPI resolution screen - it struck me ...
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Why xrandr ignores setting DPI in Zenbook of 12.10?
I recently got a Zenbook Prime and installed ubuntu. Following The tips at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AsusZenbook worked out pretty well.
Only one problem remains: I cannot set the DPI.
I ...
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Manual UI scaling for non Unity environments
14.04 and Unity now offer UI Scaling. But what if I am not running Unity? In this case I am running Awesome Window Manager. How can I get my applications to scale the way they do when I am running ...
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Ubuntu + GNOME HiDPI Cursor Size
I've used the GNOME Tweak Tool to set scaling to 2x, and it seems to work almost everywhere, except for my cursor on system toolbars, and I can't figure out why. This imgur shows what I'm talking ...
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Launch a program at double the zoom
I've got a high DPI screen and certain applications (Skype, Gimp, Inkscape) show tiny icons.
The rest of the system seems ok, so I'm just wondering if it's possible to launch a program zoomed in 2x, e....
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Reset xrandr dpi to default
I changed my dpi with the following command:
$ xrandr --dpi 144
How can I reset it to the default value? Or how can I know what the default value is so I can rerun the same command but with that ...
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Xubuntu 18.04 and DPI setting always resetting to 96 DPI
I have a problem that every time I lock screen and log back in in Xubuntu it changes DPI setting back to 96 as reported by xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution. I have two monitors set up as one screen. I ...
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Chromium browser text too big on HiDPI Display
I am running the Chromium browser on my Ubuntu 10.04 virtual machine. It seems that the text in the tabs and titles is over compensating for the HiDPI support and it looks too big.
Screenshot:
Is ...
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How do I adjust DPI in 12.04
I think that I want (need?) to adjust my DPI.
Qualitatively, text is very small and I usually find myself increasing text size in text editors, web browsers, etc.
Quantitatively:
The 1" square here ...
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Printing takes forever and gives pixelated prints
I have a Brother HL-3070CW printer, which has some serious issues. Printing takes an abnormally long time, and if the file has anything more than text in it, it becomes horribly aliased and pixelated. ...
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How to zoom in the environment to view the menu bar
Any help is appreciated! I am experiencing this problem with quite a few applications on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, where the general menu bar for the application (for example: Notepad++), where we have ...
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UI scaling across multi monitors are different
I extended my primary display to a large monitor.
Now UI elements such as buttons, menus appear little larger on my monitor. How can I keep the same UI element sizes across both of my displays?
Built ...
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Change DPI on Logitech MX Anywhere 2S
The Logitech MX Anywhere 2S mouse has support for changing the DPI but only through its software which is unfortunately only available for Windows and Mac.
Solaar has support for the but not for ...
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Dealing with a high DPI display
I recently purchased and installed Xubuntu 17.04 on it. Aside from some Secure boot finagling, it seems to be running fine, but the DPI is super tiny. I'm running a 1080p resolution on a 14in ...
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Ubuntu touch desktop mode display settings
I have a couple of questions about the desktop mode on ubuntu touch (I currently have a Meizu Pro 5).
When I connect the phone to an external display (1920x1080 screen, I think, using a Microsoft ...
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Dpi/Screen Resol. Test-Case [Ubuntu-Desktop] (seemed to be better with Nouveau) -- Xorg Display Server vs. Proprietary Nvidia .Xorg Drivers
When I first installed Ubuntu I noticed that the plymouth display screen (command-line initialization display or w.e.) Was printing lines of high-dpi text, and just as well, the desktop environment ...
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Need to manually change scaling when remote desktop connecting to high resolution display
I have a Windows 8.1 desktop machine with a 27" QHD monitor. Under Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Display, I have set "Change the size of all items" to medium (recommended) so I can ...
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How do I change the font size on tab and menu
I'm running 14.10 on my MBP with retina display. I scaled the things to 1.5 in the System Settings so everything is good except Chromium.
My chromium looks like this
https://i.stack.imgur.com/12Xe2....
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Ubuntu & Gnome DPI Nightmare
I just installed Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 LTS in a machine I'm using attached to a TV. The thing is that when I plugged the USB for installation, I could not go straight away into installation, because the ...
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How to change DPI in Ubuntu GNOME 14.04?
What I would like to do is "Change DPI to 144 in Ubuntu GNOME 14.04".
Because it's first time to me to use linux, I installed VMware Player in my laptop,
and I installed Ubuntu GNOME 14.04.
My laptop ...
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Is there a way to set global/default system settings (specifically GUI Scaling)
I added Ubuntu 14.04 to my system (MacBookPro11,3) which has a HiDPI screen. In system settings, I was able to set the GUI scaling to 2.0 for my own account, and I'm happy about that. However, the ...
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Altrnative to KDE's "force font dpi" functionality
I am currently using a non-KDE system (Lubuntu) and am trying to find a way to force DPI to a specific value. What file do I need to edit to force dpi to 96? What is the proper code?
My Ubuntu ...
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how to determine dpi size of a pdf & djvu
As the title says how would I determine the dpi of a pdf or a djvu document?
I am looking for a proper linux solution as opposed to running adobe acrobat professional under wine.
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How do I fix the font and icon size on Notepad++ for Wine on Ubuntu?
I installed Wine on Ubuntu for the sole purpose of running Notepad++ on Ubuntu, but the GUI fonts and icons are so small they are unreadable.
Below is a full screenshot of my 75" screen (TV as ...
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Ubuntu 17 - 2880x1800 resolution
I looked for a solution online. I would like to use the full retina resolution with Ubuntu. As you can imagine, text are too small. I resized them using gnome tweak tool. However, scaling at 1.5 is ...
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Upgrade Ubuntu LTS to a Version that supports MacBook retina
I have Ubuntu LTS 14.04 with Gnome 3 as GUI installed on my MacBook ( it's a persent ) and some things don not work very well. Like Chromium is eye hurting small and my thunderbold interfaces do not ...
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When will ubuntu fully support high resolution displays
I've tried tinkering with font sizes in the unity-tweak-tool and changing the scale in the display but have been unable to find a workable solution.
Will there be proper support for this in the ...
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Add file to set screen size on Xorg
I recently installed Ubuntu on my new Chromebook Pixel and I'm trying to get the resolution right. Here are the instructions I have received:
Option #4 set screen size on Xorg so that dpi goes up ...