Re: Desktop scaling

Frederic Muller composed on 2025-10-07 09:44 (UTC+0700):

> Felix Miata wrote:

>> Frederic Muller composed on 2025-10-07 09:01 (UTC+0700):

>>> Used to have 175% on my main screen and it seems now i can only select
>>> 166%. Is there a way to modify this value "by hand" to get the desired
>>> percentile amount?

>> It may depend on the DE or WM you are using. Scaling is commonly handled by DEs
>> via the xrdb setting Xft.dpi, that depending environment, might be used as the
>> setting, or possibly an override. Its value can be any whole number from 96 up to
>> somewhere in the 300s I think. 100% is 96 DPI, so 'Xft.dpi: 168' is the same as
>> 175% scaling. To set manually you can put Xft.dpi in ~/.Xresources or ~/.Xdefaults.

> Ok thank you. I have 4 monitors in total. Sometimes 3 (when I use one 
> for something else momentarily). How would that look like? And it's 
> under GNOME.

I have no idea whether xrdb is designed to handle monitor-specific DPI, but I
doubt it. I suspect only Gnome and/or Plasma are designed to handle disparate
scaling. I've never had enough disparity among displays to care to investigate,
usually just settling for 120 DPI (125%), with no more than 2560x1440 resolution.
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Felix Miata
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