Gnome fractional scaling below 100%

Question

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.

Is this feature available in other window managers?

I havent tried it, for text scaling only. https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1018/text-scaler/ — pierrely, Dec 31 '19 at 04:15
You are welcome https://askubuntu.com/questions/1075157/unable-to-set-my-screen-resolution-higher — Muhammed Suhail, Oct 23 '20 at 21:48

score 3 · Answer 1 · edited Dec 22 '20 at 09:27

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try with xrandr --output HDMI --scale 0.75x0.75 being HDMI your output from the list xrandr --listmonitors and 0.75 the wanted factor.

edited Dec 22 '20 at 09:27

Pilot6

answered Dec 20 '20 at 19:03

Gabriel Aznarez

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It makes everything blurry. However if I do the same on Unity Desktop (which supports doing this through a GUI), the scaling works perfectly. – Kartik Shah Apr 20 '21 at 11:27
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this is corecct: `xrandr --output HDMI --scale 1.2x1.2` – ArMo 372 Jul 08 '21 at 06:05
@ArMo372 is right the factor has to be more than 1 to generate scale below 100% – jave.web Feb 23 '23 at 10:50
**displays are overlapping?** => solution is apparently to set an offset and auto adjust e.g. for 2 displays/monitors (ltr) left display has original resolution 1920x1080 => 1920x1,2 => **2304**: "Left display": `xrandr --output DP-1-2 --scale 1.2x1.2 --auto --pos 0x0`, "Right display": `xrandr --output DP-1-3 --scale 1.2x1.2 --auto --pos 2304x0` – jave.web Feb 23 '23 at 11:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 03 '21 at 10:26

I'm running Debian 11. I tested this in RockyLinux - which is a CentOS splinter - and it worked.

At a terminal prompt enter:

xrandr --listmonitors

The output will look something like this:

Monitors: 1
 0: +*LVDS-1 3620/309x2036/174+0+0  LVDS-1

In the output the end bit is your video output. In my case it's "LVDS-1"

In a terminal enter:

sudo nano /etc/xdg/autostart/.desktop

Enter the below bit of info changing the LVDS-1 to what ever the output was from your system.

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=xrandr
Exec=xrandr --output LVDS-1 --scale 2.65x2.65
OnlyShowIn=GNOME;

Reboot your system and you should be set.

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 01 '22 at 10:50

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There is a bug for this on the Gnome launchpad site, I hope a few more people will go over there and raise it's profile:-

answered Sep 01 '22 at 10:50

James Lewis

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