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Questions tagged [high-dpi]

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Scaling/HiDPI issue for QT5 applications under GNOME

I have a problem with QT applications (i.e. picard or masterpdfeditor) under GNOME: their interface looks tiny. Instead, GTK application looks good. I would like a global solution which will work across all applications, not a per-application fix. I…
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Who is setting the Xresource Xft.dpi?

We recently received new laptops with a 2160p display. I received it with Ubuntu 16.04 installed with the Unity desktop. I've since installed and use Xfce 4, but kept the Unity greeter (because pretty). I fully expected to see font scaling issues…
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Which Linux distros have good multi-monitor support for differing DPI, scaling and resolutions?

Which Linux distros have good multi-monitor support for differing DPI, scaling and resolutions? I have 4 27" monitors with 3 resolutions between them: 1080p, 1440p and 4k. Windows handles per monitor scaling correctly (UI elements appear the same…
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Wayland blurry HiDPI scaling

I'm having issues with scaling on Wayland with Fedora 33 (Radeon 6900 XT, kernel 5.10.15-200). I've got double 4k 27" monitors. Scaling changes the size of UI components correctly, so setting it to 200% in gnome settings makes everything appear…
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How to set wine DPI from the command line?

I have a high DPI monitor, and every time I create a Wine prefix the default 96 dpi is minuscule. Is there some kind of console command or script I can run to just set the dpi without having to squint at the winecfg window? I've gathered that the…
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X Logical Font Description and HiDPI

The problem: X-server serves fonts at a fixed resolution of 100dpi, rather than the current window system resolution (xdpyinfo | grep -F resolution). A bit of theory. There are legacy server-side fonts which are sent to X clients over the network…
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How to force hiDPI scaling mode on boot in Pop!_OS/Gnome

I asked a similar question about hiDPI scaling here. This question regards a universal hiDPI mode, the other question is about fixing scaling on a specific application. I am using a 4k monitor in Pop!_OS 19.04 running Gnome. The OS automatically…
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KDE dynamic high-dpi text scaling

I am looking for an equivalent of the following gnome setup, in KDE: Under gnome+X11, I can get instant scaling of gnome apps, KDE apps and chrome/chromium (>v49) when plugging my high-dpi monitor (27" 4K) by running: gsettings set…
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Scaling of icons does not work for gtkmm applications

I have a 4K display, and the correct scaling would be 3x. I have put Xft.dpi: 300 in .Xresources and GDK_SCALE=3 GDK_DPI_SCALE=-1 in /etc/environment. This can scale most applications, but the C++ applications that use gtkmm do not scale. Some…
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How to change display setting to default in arch linux

I am using Arch Linux mate and I accidentally made my DPI settings really really large and now I can't change them back to a smaller setting because it's so large that it's not visible on my screen to fix it. Is there a way to correct DPI settings…
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Application dpi change on runtime - Xserver

I try to handle problems with Linux X-Server with mixed dpi displays. At the office I would like to use two non HDPI displays, else I like to use the HDPI screen of my XPS13. The best results on the HDPI display I get with changing the dpi settings…
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How to de-blur Wayland fractional scaling

As far as I understand, all fonts, like SVG, are vector representation, so they scale infinitely well. But here are two magnified "S" characters of the same size, from LibreOffice Writer. This one is 12 point, with Display scaling of 175%, making it…
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skype window does not show because it opens off screen

After a recent update of Skype it developed these symptoms: I could see its entry in the task bar, but could not show its window by trying to maximize it task bar window preview did show the window's thumbnail when the window was theoretically…
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Mixed DPI across multiple monitors with xrandr

I am running i3 window manager on Arch Linux, and am trying to use xrandr to use both my laptop screen and desktop monitor together. I intend the screens to have separate workspaces but to be able to move workspaces between monitors as needed. The…
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Emulating an HiDpi display

I have a low res laptop (1366x768) and I want to see how an app performs on a high res display. Is it possible to emulate a high res display on linux. Theoretically it should be possible. The X server will broadcast the display as 4k, the apps will…
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