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Enable fractional scaling for Ubuntu 18.04

I recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 and discovered that the fractional scaling option that was in 16.04 is no longer there. 200% is too big for my display, and this answer didn't work for me (the options didn't change after running the command). Is…
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How I can disable CPU frequency scaling and set the system to performance?

My processor is running at 40% of its maximum speed, I want it to use 100% of the speed, all the time. I searched on Google but the tutorials are very old and they all differ. So, how can I permanently disable CPU frequency scaling and set my system…
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Adjust Firefox and Thunderbird to a High DPI touchscreen display (retina)

If you are using a high DPI Display with a resolution of 3200x1600 px you can adjust Unity with a System wide Menu and titlebar scaling But Firefox is not really ready for this: All pages and the Icons stay tiny. multiplication of system font…
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Low quality image rendering in gthumb/eog

I am having problems with image quality when reducing images or zooming out in certain applications. It looks almost as if the image is not being smoothed or anti-aliased. On the left is gthumb/eog (look the same) - on the right is gimp. Left one…
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Fractional scaling won't remember settings on restart

I have fractional scaling working at 150% on one display and 100% on the other. When I reboot, these settings are forgotten (as well as the relative position of displays). How do I persist my settings? This is on Ubuntu 19.10.
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How to set different scaling on multi monitor (3 monitors)

I have 3 monitors, the left one is 4k, while the other 2 are 1080p. The problem I am having is that if I have the 1080p monitors on normal scaling, the 4k monitor is basically unusable because everything is too small, but if i set the 4k monitor to…
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Experimental Fractional scaling makes fonts dirty in Ubuntu 17.10

I updated to 17.10 from 17.04. I activated the fractional scaling by running the following command. gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']" Then, I changed 125% scale. The scale was changed, but the…
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Gnome 3.16 HiDPI scaling only accepts integers

I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 15.04 with Gnome 3.16, which is working really great on my machine (despite what I found on many forums around the web). Having a high DPI screen however (13.3" with 1920x1080) I need to scale the entire system to use…
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Ubuntu 20.04 Font and UI elements too big on login

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 on an ASUS X99-E-10G WS w/ an NVIDIA 1080Ti and an LG 4k 32" monitor which persistently gets recognized as 27". When I log in, the text of certain UI elements is ~2x the normal size. After I go to settings/universal access…
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How do you set scaling for a high dpi monitor and low dpi monitor independently?

So I have a 34 inch 3440x1440 and a 28 inch 3840x2160 monitor side by side. All apps look tiny on the 4k monitor. My only solution so far has been to increase the zoom level on applications that allow that but it has been a real pain when moving…
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How can I scale Windows Individually?

scaling option in Gnome tweak tools works on whole interface, I'm not looking for that, I'm looking to do the same but just for one Application (or let's say selection of applications) Is it even possible?
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Why does fractional scaling in Ubuntu 22.04 show a warning message about impacting performance?

It has been a couple of years since Ubuntu added Fractional Scaling to the Displays settings. At the beginning there was the following warning which attended the user: May increase power usage, lower speed, or reduce display sharpness Now, in…
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Chrome menus too slow after enabling fractional scaling in Ubuntu 20.04

A few weeks ago I set up fractional scaling to 125% in Ubuntu 20.04. After that I noticed that some of the menus in chrome are too slow. When I disable fractional scaling the speed goes back to normal. I tried to search but so far couldn't find…
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Is there any way to set the display scaling back to default other than from the display settings dialog?

I scaled the UI from the display menu. Now it is way too big and I can't get to the slider to reset it. Any ideas how I can change the scaling in Unity back to default without accessing the settings menu?? I tried dconf reset -f /org/unity with…
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How do I set scaling in Wine?

When I use regular or fractional scaling, content generated by Wine does not scale. This looks particularly bad under fractional scaling because the Wine content takes up relatively less of the screen. No scaling, 125% scaling, 200% scaling.…
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