Questions tagged [scaling]
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Enable fractional scaling for Ubuntu 18.04
I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 and discovered that the fractional scaling option that was in 16.04 is no longer there. 200% is too big for my display, and this answer didn't work for me (the ...
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How I can disable CPU frequency scaling and set the system to performance?
My processor is running at 40% of its maximum speed, I want it to use 100% of the speed, all the time. I searched on Google but the tutorials are very old and they all differ.
So, how can I ...
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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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Low quality image rendering in gthumb/eog
I am having problems with image quality when reducing images or zooming out in certain applications. It looks almost as if the image is not being smoothed or anti-aliased.
On the left is gthumb/eog (...
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How to set different scaling on multi monitor (3 monitors)
I have 3 monitors, the left one is 4k, while the other 2 are 1080p. The problem I am having is that if I have the 1080p monitors on normal scaling, the 4k monitor is basically unusable because ...
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Fractional scaling won't remember settings on restart
I have fractional scaling working at 150% on one display and 100% on the other. When I reboot, these settings are forgotten (as well as the relative position of displays).
How do I persist my ...
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Why does fractional scaling in Ubuntu 22.04 show a warning message about impacting performance?
It has been a couple of years since Ubuntu added Fractional Scaling to the Displays settings.
At the beginning there was the following warning which attended the user:
May increase power usage, lower ...
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Experimental Fractional scaling makes fonts dirty in Ubuntu 17.10
I updated to 17.10 from 17.04.
I activated the fractional scaling by running the following command.
gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']"
Then, I ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 Font and UI elements too big on login
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on an ASUS X99-E-10G WS w/ an NVIDIA 1080Ti and an LG 4k 32" monitor which persistently gets recognized as 27".
When I log in, the text of certain UI elements is ~2x ...
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Gnome 3.16 HiDPI scaling only accepts integers
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04 with Gnome 3.16, which is working really great on my machine (despite what I found on many forums around the web). Having a high DPI screen however (13.3" with ...
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How do you set scaling for a high dpi monitor and low dpi monitor independently?
So I have a 34 inch 3440x1440 and a 28 inch 3840x2160 monitor side by side. All apps look tiny on the 4k monitor. My only solution so far has been to increase the zoom level on applications that allow ...
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Fractional scaling makes browser blurred
I have the maximal resolution set on my display, but when I enable fractional scaling in the display settings of Ubuntu (version 22.04) Google Chrome becomes blurred regardless whether I started the ...
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How do I set scaling in Wine?
When I use regular or fractional scaling, content generated by Wine does not scale. This looks particularly bad under fractional scaling because the Wine content takes up relatively less of the screen....
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Chrome menus too slow after enabling fractional scaling in Ubuntu 20.04
A few weeks ago I set up fractional scaling to 125% in Ubuntu 20.04.
After that I noticed that some of the menus in chrome are too slow. When I disable fractional scaling the speed goes back to normal....
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How can I scale Windows Individually?
scaling option in Gnome tweak tools works on whole interface, I'm not looking for that, I'm looking to do the same but just for one Application (or let's say selection of applications)
Is it even ...
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Kazam always record only 1/4 of the screen
I'm trying to use Kazam to take videos of the screen. It always records the 1/4 of top left of my screen, no matter what I do. No matter if I select the entire screen, a window or select a piece of ...
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Zoom window is too small on Ubuntu 20.04 with a 4K screen resolution and 200% scaling
I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on a 4K screen with 200% scaling, and when I run Zoom, the menus and texts are simply too small. All other applications are scaling as expected.
I've attached an print screen ...
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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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How to change display scaling settings in Lubuntu?
How to change display scaling settings in Lubuntu, so that the font, the icons and the buttons are bigger, similar to Mac OS X, in size?
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Ubuntu 13.04 CPU frequency scaling 'stuck' on lowest frequency
I've just installed Ubuntu 13.04 on my MacBook Air, after toying around for awhile the machine felt really slow, so I checked out the CPU frequency. cpufreq-info, it reports 800MHz on all 4 cores (...
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Fractional scaling resets after logout in 20.04
Fractional scaling works fine on my dual monitor and can setup monitor location, but when I logout (not even reset) I lose all the settings and it goes back to 100%. Any icons move to the second ...
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Display scaling option gone after 18.04 update
I am running Ubuntu 18.04.2 under VMWare Fusion on a macbook pro.
It just downloaded an update, and, after it rebooted, the display was no longer scaling and the scaling option had disappeared from ...
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Gnome fractional scaling below 100%
I am running Ubuntu 19.10 on an old laptop with max resolution of 1366x768.
Is there a way to scale down gnome below 100%?
I have already set text scaling to .90 and reduced the dock icon size to 36....
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Ubuntu 20.04 - different scaling for multi display setup
I have 2/3 monitor setup
nr #1 - 5120x2160 (21:9) AKA "5K"
nr #2 - 1920x1080 (16:9)
nr #3 - 1920x1080 (16:9) - connected and used only occasionally
display setup
It`s messy. Default resolution ...
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How can I zoom one specific window in KDE?
In my high resolution laptop display I defined the font to 230 dpi so everything looks fine but some apps that are running in java.
Is it possible to display a specific desired window scaled in ...
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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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`indicator-cpufreq` doesn't seem to work on 14.10
I have a Dell XPS 12 and just installed Ubuntu 14.10 (by completely wiping out the old 14.04 installation).
The indicator menu has 2 options, Performance and Powersave, from which I choose ...
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Adjust text scaling factor for all users
I am using gnome tweak tools on my system which is Ubuntu 12.04 with a few users set. I want to change the text scaling factor for all the user accounts.
If I use gsettings set org.gnome.desktop....
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Tiny cursor in Firefox snap
I just migrated from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, and Firefox migrated to snap.
As a result, I have a problem where mouse cursor is tiny inside Firefox window.
I have display scale at 200%, so I guess that ...
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Zoom and Anaconda Navigator have weird scaling
I recently installed Zoom and it is opening up really weird - everything is super zoomed-in. Is there a way to change the resolution of a program? I was wondering if there was a configuration file ...
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How to set the scaling of the display through command line?
If I use a second monitor on Ubuntu 20.04 and if it has the highes resolution (4K), the 1st screen keeps glitching. I found out after many tries that putting it to 175% of fractional scaling then 200% ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 - Small Cursor in some applications - 4k Screen with 200% Scaling
Update: I've narrowed this down to Ubuntu on Wayland, running without Wayland my cursor is the correct size across all applications. I still don't have a solution but I'm closer than before.
Original:
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Can I make display scaling permanent in 19.04?
I am using the new fractional scaling feature for high-DPI Monitors in 19.04. It works very well and I enjoy it very much. There is one thing that annoys me a bit. Every time I reboot my computer the ...
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Remmina refuses to scale the remote screen res to fit in smaller client screen
Remote PC screen is cropped
Running remmina client 1.2.0-rcgit-29 (git rcgit-29)
Connected to remote Ubuntu desktop using VNC.
Remote desktop resolution is too high for client screen. There are no ...
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Change the display scaling on the fly
I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut or a CLI instruction to change the display scale on the fly. Seems there's nothing in compiz-config manager to handle this?
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change Kubuntu laptop display scale
I' ve install the kubuntu 18.04 into my HP ZHAN 99 G1. At first it display in 1080P and have no scaling(maybe, because it have tiny logo and tiny font), but after I have tried to install latest Nvidia ...
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Changing UI scaling from command line
I am using Ubuntu 18.10.
I am trying to create two aliases in my .bashrc for commands to "resdown" and "resup" (i.e. decrease and increase my screen resolution respectively).
The resdown command is ...
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Remmina scaling options
What is the purpose of the following settings in Remmina and how to use them?
Desktop scale factor %
Device scale factor %
I'm connecting Ubuntu 18.04 to Windows 7 through RDP and interested in ...
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Fractional scaling a single application window in Gnome Shell
I am seeking to up-scale a single application in Ubuntu 17.04, Gnome Shell 3.24.
In my concrete case, the motivation is unstable zoom functionality in Franz, but another reason could be older apps ...
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Catalyst forgets monitor settings after reboot or log out in 12.10
I have a Samsung monitor connected to my ATI Radeon graphic card via HDMI. By default the screen has a black border around, but I can disable it in the Catalyst menu to get full screen. (There is a ...
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Parallels: Scale title bars and menu not working
I've installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS on my Macbook Pro 15" with Retina Display with Parallels 10. Unfortunately the whole GUI is very small so it isn't very comfortable to work with.
A fix for this ...
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Automatically rescale Google Chrome between different monitors
My laptop has a 4K monitor, while my external display is only 1920x1080. When I'm connected to the external monitor and I open Chrome it looks Ok. However, when I switch off the external monitor and ...
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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 to prevent fonts from rescaling [closed]
In Ubuntu 14.04 there's a new feature that I love called "scale for menu and title bars". It is located in the display settings.
I have set the scaling to 0.875. Since setting this, I have had many ...
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change min and max cpu frequency
Is there a way to change min/max frequency for the CPU in Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic beaver? I want to lower my max CPU frequency to maybe 1700000 to make my laptop run more silent. Below is CPU frequency ...
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Setting monitor scaling to 200% with xrandr
I have two 4k monitors one called DP-4, the other DP-2 (plus the Laptop's internal display). Using xrandr (or another command line tool) I would like to arrange them as in the following and also set ...
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Under Ubuntu 18.04 my Java 10 application doesn't scale with the screen
I am programming a Java 10 application using JavaFX for the UI.
Under Ubuntu 16.04 the application was sized appropriately. Under 18.04 suddenly the application is scaled to half its size. I need to ...
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How to scale desktop icons in 18.04 [duplicate]
How can I scale my desktop icons in Ubuntu 18.04? With Ubuntu 16.04 I could scale my icons under the screen size tab in Settings. With Ubuntu 18.04 I cannot do that.
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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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per display scaling (HiDPI) not working for some reason
Scaling works fine when using the "Single Display" mode.
But when I try to switch over to "Join Displays" I don't get the "Apply" button when setting 2nd monitor to 4k and 200% scaling and other ...
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