Questions tagged [dpi]
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Is it possible to have different DPI configurations for two different screens?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.3 with NVidia drivers (319) for my Quadro K2100M graphic card, and when I switch my main 3200x1800 laptop screen to mode 1920x1080 (using nvidia-settings), the display goes ...
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How to find and change the screen DPI?
I am trying to find and then change the screen DPI (dots per inch) setting in 12.04 and 12.10. However, I can't seem to find any app or config file that can do this. Is there any app or conf file for ...
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Fix scaling of java-based applications for a high DPI screen
There are some applications (mainly java based) that don't follow the global 2x scale I set in the screen-settings. So these apps are really tiny on my high DPI screen with 3200x1800px.
How can I get ...
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Adjust Firefox and Thunderbird to a High DPI touchscreen display (retina)
If you are using a high DPI Display with a resolution of 3200x1600 px you can adjust Unity with a System wide Menu and titlebar scaling But Firefox is not really ready for this: All pages and the ...
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How do I change the font DPI settings?
I installed Oneiric on a clean system, and found that the font tab is gone from the Appearance settings. This is a problem, because by default the text in Ubuntu is too large.
I changed the text from ...
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How to set up Gnome interface for HiDPI screen?
I have a 3200x1800 ultrabook and I would like to decrease the resolution of the screen 2x. The problem is that once I do it all the GUI elements increase in size too much
Is there a way how to scale ...
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How can I make PDFs appear life-size when displayed at 100%?
When I open a letter size PDF and then zoom to 100%, the page physically displayed on my monitor is smaller than a real letter size sheet of paper.
How can I make "100%" on the computer screen ...
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Does Ubuntu support retina displays?
There was a discussion in summer that Ubuntu does not support retina displays - everything on the screen is too small. Even adjusting DPI does not help, since such an adjusting scales only fonts, bit ...
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ubuntu as guest in virtualbox at host with high DPI screen
I was wondering, I like the fullscreen mode (host + f by default), but this is unfortunately not very helpful with a 3200x1800 resolution screen (15 inches). The scaling mode (host + C) is better, but ...
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Is there any way to set the display scaling back to default other than from the display settings dialog?
I scaled the UI from the display menu. Now it is way too big and I can't get to the slider to reset it.
Any ideas how I can change the scaling in Unity back to default without accessing the settings ...
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Wayland: Multi DPI Setup
We are writing the year 2018 and it will not be the year of Linux again!
I'm working on Wayland since the beginning of the year (full time!),
but it's not that satisfying with a mixed/multi dpi setup.
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Mixed DPI setting on multiple monitors - Ubuntu 18.04 - how?
I have been running Ubuntu 16.04 on my old Dell XPS 9530 with 4K screen, with an external regular DPI screen, and it has been almost OK. I can set scale individually on each screen - and set what ...
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How to change the screen DPI in 11.10? [duplicate]
I want to change the DPI of the screen that is used in Ubuntu 11.10. How do I do this?
I don't just want to change the font size like in How do I change the font DPI settings?, but I also want the ...
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How to get the right DPI resolution on Ubuntu 13.04 Saucy?
The physical DPI of my laptop screen is approximately 142 dots per inch as you can calculate from the correct output of xrandr --query:
$ xrandr --query | head
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current ...
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Ubuntu Mate desktop scaling for 4k displays
I am trying to use ubuntu mate on lenovo y50 having 4k resolution .It seems there is no support for hidpi screens in mate . I was able to manage scaling in gnome desktop using
gsettings set org.gnome....
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Chrome 43 DPI Low Resolution
I updated Chrome to Version 43.0.2357.81 (64-bit) and after restarting Chrome it displays it (Chrome) in low resolution (as far as I can tell). The tabs are bigger, buttons and text the same. Most of ...
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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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Custom DPI settings in KDE
How can I set a custom value for font DPI in KDE?
The only options available in KDE are 96 and 120 DPI values. My Screen resolution is 1920*1080, so I would like to keep the DPI at a value higher ...
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Set Openbox to be readable on a QHD screen?
I have a Samsung ATIV Book 9 Plus, which has a Quad HD (3200 x 1800) screen.
Needless to say, the scaling on this make the font super tiny and hard to read.
In unity it's easy to adjust the window &...
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How to adjust DPI in 14.04
I asked about fixing DPI in 12.04.
The 14.04 release notes list "Support for High-DPI screens and desktop scaling."
Post upgrade, it seems that nothing has changed. Similar symptoms from my previous ...
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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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How can I make lightdm scale on a hidpi screen?
I have a laptop with a 3200x1800 screen. When I start up my laptop, lightdm doesn't scale to the resolution and looks tiny. When I lock the screen afterwards, lightdm scales and looks fine. I found ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 (Unity) keeps forgetting DPI scaling setting
Unity interface scaling resets back to 1.0 on every display reconnection. It worked fine in the past. Any suggestions? Thank you!
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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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How well-supported is the Canon CanoScan LiDE110?
On the list of supported SANE devices the scanner is listed as fully supported but it says:
resolution from 75 to 2400 dpi
Here is a link to Newegg's item listing, where it lists the optical ...
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screen DPI - is there and equivalent command/action to Windows 150% Display
I have a wide screen of high resolution and I see everything small on it. So In windows I set the display to 150%, I would like to do something similar in Ubuntu. Simply changing screen resolution to ...
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any support in any Ubuntu flavor for per-display DPI scaling?
my question is about having multiple monitors with different density (DPI) to display the UI at approximately the same physical dimensions.
The feature is supported by Windows 8.1 and Mac OS 10.9. ...
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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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chrome resolution changes when monitor is turned off
Having an issue with Google Chrome resolution/dpi changing when I turn my monitor off. I'm pretty sure that this is all related to the scaling factor from Universal Access Panel. in which I have large ...
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How can I change the dpi of my monitors separately? [duplicate]
I have two fullHD monitors, one of which is a 15" Laptop screen. How can I change the DPI of only that particular screen, to read text more comfortably?
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Any screenshot application that supports HiDPI?
In a computer with a HiDPI screen (3200x1800), with Ubuntu 14.04 and Cinnamon, gnome-screenshot (3.10.1) captures images at half the resolution (1600x900), so the capture appears blurry. I've tried ...
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Different DPI for different screens stopped to work on Ubuntu 18/04
On Ubuntu 17.10 I was able to use different DPIs on my internal monitor and external one - 200% for QHD+ internal and 100% for FHD external. Now when I try to switch percent value on either of the ...
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Change DPI on HiDPI laptop with two external monitors
I have a Surface Pro 3 laptop (running Ubuntu Gnome) with two external monitors.
The laptop's screen has a resolution of 2160x1440, and the two monitors are 1920x1080.
The Surface Pro (eDP1) is on ...
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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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Third party applications on HiDPI display
I noticed that some apps (Google Chrome, Viber, VKAudioSaver) have problems with HiDPI dispays (everithing is too small). Other apps work nice. Strange thing is that Cromium works good (with some ...
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How to blanket change scaling of ui elements?
I have a large but not especially high resolution display. I don't want to change the font sizes, but rather I want to change how large everything appears other than text. I want to know how to do ...
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How can I get more granular control of Unity scaling factor?
In the Displays section of the settings, Unity has an option to set "Scale for menu and title bars". This option is presented as a slider with notches every .125. However, I find that the optimal ...
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thinkorswim installer too small
I am attempting to install thinkorswim on Ubuntu 18.04. I have followed their installation instructions listed here.
They are as follows:
How do I install Zulu OpenJDK in order to install ...
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Changing DPI of login screen (Ubuntu 16.04)
Is it possible to change the DPI of the greeter? I have a new laptop with a 1080p screen and all of the fonts/menus are too small. I can change the scaling setting for my user account but there doesn'...
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Ubuntu guest 15.10 and 14.04 font rendering issue on a high-resolution monitor
Ubuntu as a guest OS in VirtualBox 5.014 with latest VBox Guest Additions installed. The fonts render irregularly (see screenshot at full resolution)
I tried changing the "Scale for menu and title ...
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Fonts DPI problem in Firefox and Open Office
I have changed fonts DPI from 96 to 85. Now the desktop really looks great but the problem is that Firefox and Open Office won't apply the new settings. They still use 96 DPI.
Any suggestion?
thx
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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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HDTV recognized as 7-inch screen causes wrong DPI settings
I just finished building myself a Ubuntu HTPC/Home server, and when I was setting it up, it was hooked to a 24" ASUS monitor using HDMI, no problem there, crystal clear image. But now that it's ready ...
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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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Is Gnome DPI aware?
Is Gnome fully DPI aware? I don't mean only fonts but also widgets like buttons, window borders etc.
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