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The screen of my laptop is pretty small but has a high resolution, which leads to all of the windows and icons being teeny tiny. Is there a way to scale everything up? And yes, I have scaled the font up but that only helps in certain places. Any help would be lovely!
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Using xrandr to lower the screen resolution sort of works, but some things go off the edges and it resets on a reboot.
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Menu > Preferences > Display > arandr.
Save the settings as a shell script (in ~/.screenlayout by default).
Add the script to start in your autostart, before setting the wallpaper (Preferences > Bunsenlabs > Edit autostart):
./.screenlayout/yourscriptname.sh
Read the manpages to see how xrandr can give information about your monitor:
man xrandr
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Thank you!
I guess I'll just have to put up with the background and Conky being slightly off-center
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I guess I'll just have to put up with the background and Conky being slightly off-center
Why?
Have you used xrandr to find out your screen's state?
Have you checked out xrandr's --dpi option?
Does your monitor have hardware controls for overscan?
You can adjust conky position from the screen edge, and edit your wallpaper to fit, if all else fails.
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The screen state is "Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 2560 x 1440, maximum 8192 x 8192
eDP-1 connected primary 2560x1440+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)", I haven't found that --dpi does much of anything, and it doesn't, as far as I can tell.
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Hmm, so dpi affects some things, but not the actual scaling of things like windows, the taskbar, or the conky.
Last edited by flbr (2020-08-18 02:59:38)
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Get your dpi with
xdpyinfo | grep -B 2 resolution
If it is eg 144, then try setting
xrandr --dpi 144
If that works then add it to the xrandr command in the .screenlayout script.
You might also look in your ~/.Xresources file and change
!Xft.dpi: 96
to
Xft.dpi: 144
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So did that work?
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Yup! Very well
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Thats what brought me to the forums. Never had a distro that didn't save automatically when rebooting.Easy fix but I wasn't looking in the .bunsen. I was looking in .openbox and.xorg
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Hello good people!
Could you point me towards a step by step tutorial to fix the size of text and apps on HiDPI screens? I am trying to learn Linux but everything is so small that it prevents me to research and try the things out without losing my mind.
I understand I could use a different distro but I have fallen in love with Lithium and don't wanna let it go.
Thanks in advance,
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Hello good people!
Could you point me towards a step by step tutorial to fix the size of text and apps on HiDPI screens? I am trying to learn Linux but everything is so small that it prevents me to research and try the things out without losing my mind.
I understand I could use a different distro but I have fallen in love with Lithium and don't wanna let it go.
Thanks in advance,
O.
I think you should adjust the DPI setting.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/197828/ … screen-dpi
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Also a few posts earlier in this very thread: https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 73#p105273
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Thank you, guys.
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