Questions tagged [hdpi]
High DPI (dots per inch) screen resolutions, e.g. 4k/UHD/QHD screens in a relatively small form factor, e.g. laptops/tablets. Use this tag for issues relating to the Ubuntu experience on HDPI screens.
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Screen scale cannot be set
In wayland, I can set the screen scaling of my monitor (connected to RX580 GPU with amdgpu driver) to 200% just fine.
However, I had to switch back to X11, because one of my apps (FlashPrint) will not ...
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Fractional scaling doesn't work properly on Ubuntu 22.04.02 LTS
The last days I changed my graphic card to Nvidia RTX 1070, since then the fractional scaling doesn't work properly for some applications like:
PyCharm, Matlab, Foxit Reader, etc
I have a dual monitor ...
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inconsistent cursor size over certain apps/windows
when hovering over certain apps, specifically obs studio and the thinkorswim desktop app, my mouse mouse cursor becomes enlarged until i hover/enter out of focus of that window.
in this first photo, ...
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Can't get 60Hz 4k on Dell XPS 13 9370 Ubuntu 22.04, only 30Hz works
I just got a Samsung LU28R550UQNXZA (28-inch 4K UHD) monitor, connected to a Dell XPS 13 9370 running Ubuntu 22.04.1 (X11). It works except that the highest supported refresh rate is 30Hz.
I'm using a ...
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HiDPI screen problem in i3wm
I have a screen of the following configuration
2880x1800 90.00*+
laptop spec
Asus vivobook s14 intel i5 12th gen, intel ires graphics, ubuntu 22.04LTS
Ubuntu on Wayland works fine with scaling set ...
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How do I get the login SDDM to use large fonts on my hidpi display?
On Kubuntu 22.04, I've configured my desktop session to use a suitably large font with System Settings > Display and Monitor > Display Configuration > Global scale. But the SDDM remains ...
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PHPStorm multiple monitors fractional scaling issue
I'm trying to use fractional scaling feature to set scaling of each screen individually.
Some applications must be run in wayland explicitly to avoid blurry fonts such as Google Chrome:
google-chrome -...
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Hidpi: window decorations tiny?
After many many years I just decided to give KDE/Plasma another chance and installed it alongside my usual window managers (xfce, mate) on my Ubuntu 22.04.1 (all updates installed as of today) laptop ...
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How do I scale one external monitor only?
I've been researching how to make the content on my 4k monitor larger, as at 24 inches and 100% scaling everything is too small. I changed in settings the scaling to 200% but it scales my laptop ...
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Will 15.6 UHD screen with i5 intel 1250P on Ubuntu 20.04 be a good performer?
This is my first port on this platform. I am planning to buy a ubuntu laptop from dell with 15.6 FHD screen, 16 GB RAM powered by intel 12 gen i5 1250P cpu and 256+256 ssd storage accompanied by 58whr ...
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Dual monitor with different DPI causing overscan
I have a laptop with a 4k screen running Ubuntu 22.04 that I use with 200% scaling. The problem emerges when I connect a FHD (1920x1080) monitor into it.
If I let fractional scaling disabled and set ...
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How to fix blurred PDF preview in TeXstudio under fractional scaling?
I am using fractional scaling in Kubuntu 20.04.
When I compile a .tex file in TeXstudio, the preview of the output is blurred (however, the generated PDF is not blurred when viewed in Okular or ...
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How to enable fractional scaling of GTK apps in KDE Plasma?
While Plasma supports fractional scaling of Qt apps very well, the fractional scaling does not apply on GTK apps.
GDK_SCALE=2 appname can apply a scale factor 2, but it does not work for fractional ...
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How to increase DPI of vncviewer?
vncviewer doesn't scale with the DPI of your display, I can't make out anything on this tiny thing:
I'm having eye strain from that. The GDK_SCALE=x or GDK_DPI_SCALE=x approaches don't work.
How to ...
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The caribou onscreen keyboard covered the input box of the lock screen
Due to my small screen, a 10 inch screen, everything behaves bad with HiDPI.
Besides, how can i remove that little guy(accessibility) and the little triangle at the top panel?
Thanks!
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Icon too small at Ubuntu 20.04 with HIDPI scale
Everything looks very well after my customize, but emm...
This is the first one: so small icon that i can't see it clearly. It's just a 10 inch screen with 1920x1200.
Setting: 1. 1920x1200 with ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04: second cursor stuck on the screen 150% fractional scaling on a 1440p monitor after login (XOrg)
EDIT: example https://imgur.com/a/nhzhaSb
If "fractional scaling" is set to 150%, then after login there is a second cursor stuck on the screen. Confirmed on both Ubuntu 20.04 and 21.04.
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ubuntu 20.10, Gnome wayland, apps don't scale
ubuntu 20.10, Gnome wayland , apps don't scale.
I set one monitor to scale 200% (i'd prefer 150%, but i don't see that option :/)
'ubuntu' apps, like settings or terminal comply with that setting, but ...
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file manager with icon zooming for HiDPI displays
Previously, nautilus could be configured to allow icon scaling at over %200. This appears to no longer available.
Is there a competing GUI file manager that is more flexible?
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How to enable transcluency in Kvantum with fractional scaling?
I started using fractional scaling after switching to a HiDPI screen, and noticed that the transcluency in Dolphin, Gwenview are gone. I am using Kvantum.
How to enable transcluency with fractional ...
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Display Glitching on Ubuntu 20 LTS
I've recently decided to run Ubuntu as my main OS on my laptop, however I've noticed this weird glitching occurring when I lock/sleep/suspend my laptop. It only occurs when the screen dims and I wake ...
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VLC just plays audio for H.264 and VP8 videos though all necessary codecs are properly installed
Videos that are encoded with H.264 or VP8 codecs (possibly others too), regardless of the container (MKV, MP4, WEBM, etc), will only play audio in VLC, at least in Ubuntu 20.04. Interestingly, GNOME ...
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Problem with full-screen applications and fractional scaling for HiDPI monitors
This is another problem I experience with fractional scaling/HiDPI and Ubuntu 20.10.
I have a setup with 2 normal DPI monitors and one HiDPI with 150% zoom.
The problem is when an application requests ...
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How to scale up the UI of Spotify for 4K displays
The Spotify client installed from the snap store is barely usable on HiDPI displays and there seem to be no built-in options to scale the UI. Is there a workaround to scale it?
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GSettings key hi-dpi-factor not found in schema
I am almost a beginner to ubuntu. I installed a "netspeed" extension using the guide from here ubuntuhandbook. Its working fine but when I open gnome-tweaks to configure its settings, it ...
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How can I automatically enable large text when logging in to the ubuntu session? [duplicate]
I enabled the large text option in accessibility menu because I have Full-HD screen. The problem is why the setting reverts itself back to "non-large" mode after I restart my PC? It's funny ...
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Gnome logs in with display scaling problem
I have a problem where after log in some elements of the Gnome interface appear very large, while the applications still render at the correct size.
Going into Gnome Tweaks, Fonts, Scaling and ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Wayland fractional scaling and multiple monitors hidden UI elements
I'm using multiple monitors with different DPI and fractional scaling.
When I open some window, such as Nautilus, some UI elements are hidden and when I hover over the elements its shows.
The below ...
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Display scaling setting - difference between Gnome Tweaks and Gnome Display settings
Both gnome-tweak-tool and Display settings tools seem to offer a way to change the scaling of the display (See screenshot below), however it is not clear to me how they are related and which controls ...
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Icons in Gnome top bar misplaced and overlapping with applications [duplicate]
this week I installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my laptop and connected it to my external 27" screen (EIZO 27" with 3840x2160px).
In order to enable video acceleration in Firefox via VA-API I switched ...
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Running xrandr to change refresh rate resets Gnome display scaling to 100%
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with a 2160p TV on my new HTPC with AMD Ryzen 3200g APU.
To sync the display refresh rate to the video being played I have the xrandr.lua script for mpv which just runs xrandr, ...
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Problem with HiDPI screen and FullHD monitor
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
Inner monitor 3000x2000
External monitor 1920x1080
GPU - GeForce MX250
Driver: GP108BM
Windows can manage this setup, with Ubuntu it's not that simple.
I was trying to configure it ...
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HDSPmixer and HDSPconf HiDPI Scaling Factor
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I am running Ubuntu 20.04 (Gnome) with the Ubuntu Studio packages installed. I'm working with a RME HDSP 9652 (Hammerfall) sound card and an ASUS HiDPI 32" screen. hdspmixer and hdspconf work ...
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Steam fonts are very small on Ubuntu 20.04
My screen resolution is 2560x1440 and I am using fractional scaling at 125%.
Steam fonts are unreadable (see the screenshot and compare with the size of the Chrome icon).
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Ubuntu 20.04 and Display settings are not preserved [closed]
I am trying Ubuntu 20.04 and I am impressed with the new fractional scaling feature which works (almost) perfectly.
The problem is that it doesn't seem to save the options when I log out. When I log-...
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External monitor, scaled by xrandr, only shows 1/4 of what it's supposed to show
I'm having some issues configuring my screen setup correctly with xrandr.
My setup consists of a Dell XPS-13 with a 4K (3200x1800) Display and an external 21 inch FullHD (1920x1080) Monitor.
Because ...
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Are the LibreOffice SVG icon sets available in Ubuntu?
Arch Linux has several sets of SVG icons included with their libreoffice packages. These icons look nice on medium-high DPI screens:
On Ubuntu, there is no "Colibre (SVG)" option in the icon style ...
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Auto-scaling on HiDPI and normal DPI displays .... how?
I have Ubuntu 18.04LTS (with default Gnome and Cinnamon), my main display is 4K and external 1080p.
I have problem with most apps. they don't scale properly on external display - they stay double size ...
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Set font/font size/font scaling for single application window
Background:
On my high resolution display, some applications---e.g. Mendeley---do not scale nicely like native apps.
Currently, I scale up the entire app, using
QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.2 mendeleydesktop
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Need help with HiDPI scaling
I'm running Ubuntu 19.10 on a Lenovo Thinkpad Carbon X1 with an additional 4K external monitor. Everything looks huge on both the internal and external monitors. I tried to scale both screns using ...
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Mixing high and low DPI screens
I have a Lenovo X1 Carbon 7th Gen (3840x2160) and I am using it in conjunction with two older DELL monitors (1920x1280). Running Ubuntu Mate 19.10.
Most of the major elements I interact with (...
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How to fix small GUI on Mendeley Desktop?
I installed Mendeley desktop on my laptop which has a high DPI screen (3200x1800). The GUI is extremely tiny and I've tried googling ways to force the GUI to be larger or adapt it for my screen to no ...
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How to configure multiple displays with different DPI settings using xfce >= 4.14?
XFCE 4.14 promises HiDPI support. I'd like to use different DPI settings on my laptop screen and on the external monitor, but I can't find any new features improving this particular situation. So what ...
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How to handle HiDiPi / retina screens of different sizes
I'm working on a Thinkpad T480s, which has a WQHD (2560x1440) 14" display. This makes for very small fonts in Firefox and the window manager (Xfce).
In principle, I could set the layout.css....
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How to configure dmenu to launch an application with arguments?
For some background, I just barely switched my wm to i3 and am customizing it. I am very new to everything, which means that I have a lot to learn. I've been trying to get Spotify to be better scaled ...
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High DPI - Confusing Resolution With DPI
It appears that Gnome confuses dimensions with DPI.
I'm running Ubuntu 19.04 in a VM on a Macbook with 'Retina' display. I enabled High DPI via setting scale-monitor-framebuffer and x11-randr-...
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Fractional scaling not working on 19.04
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 19.04. I have 2 monitors, one with a resolution of 3840x2160 and another with a resolution of 2560x1440. I have enabled x11-randr-fractional-scaling using dconf.
The ...
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How to automatically increase Chrome UI size?
On my 15.6" HD laptop screen with resolution 1920 x 1080, Google Chrome looks too small by default. Not the page content but the other things like URL bar, the menu, window buttons, etc. and the font ...
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HiDPI monitor and window resize after lock
Edit: I have just realized, the same resizing happens if I maximize a window and then restore it, but only in nautilus, and not in evince/gedit.
Ever since I started using Bionic, I've had the ...
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Issues with Displays on VMware. Scale missing + cannot permanently add resolution
I have already spent some time to find solutions for my issues looking into ubuntu forums and google, but no viable solution.
I am using on Lenovo Ideacentre (with 4K display) VMware Player to run ...
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