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I have a 3200x1800 ultrabook and I would like to decrease the resolution of the screen 2x. The problem is that once I do it all the GUI elements increase in size too much

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Is there a way how to scale down the size of everything that Gnome Shell shows ?

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Your best bet is to keep the 3200x1800 resolution and just change the interface scaling factor of GNOME.

Command line method:

Open a terminal (Ctrl+Alt+T) and execute :

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2

You can reset this setting later by running :

gsettings reset org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor

Graphical method:

You can use the gnome-tweak-tool:

sudo apt-get install gnome-tweak-tool

Go to "Windows" and set "Window Scaling" to 2:

gnome-tweak-tool screenshot
Credit to PCWorld for the screenshot

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