Changing screen scale in LXDE

Question

I have installed Lubuntu on a very old laptop, and it performs great! I know there is an option in Ubuntu unity desktop which allows changing the scale of what you see on screen. Since my old laptop is 1280×1024, I would like to scale things a bit down to get more real estate...but I could not find this option in LXDE.

I already tried smaller font size, but it is just not the right answer!

Is 1280x1024 your physical monitor size (in pixels) or just the resolution you are using? Check the output of `xrandr` to see if more dense pixelations are available. — user001, Oct 31 '17 at 08:18
For me .Xdefaults worked in 21.04: https://stackoverflow.com/a/49875344 — Aleksandar Golubovski, Jul 15 '21 at 08:31

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 20 '18 at 14:24

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There is an option to set global scale in LXDE.

Edit (or create) .Xresources in your home folder and set the dpi

Xft.dpi: 150

For my Dell XPS I have set it to 200 and works reasonably well

answered Apr 20 '18 at 14:24

Ganesh Krishnan

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 08 '15 at 07:52

1280x1024 and you need to scale down? My desktop screen is that resolution and I still use Dejavu Sans size 11/12! But I have bad sight.

There's no global "scaling" in LXDE; you change font size (in lxappearance), or icon size in the panel's size parameters (right click the panel and choose the panel parameter entry).

Changing screen scale in LXDE

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