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Questions tagged [scale-mode]

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Different display scale settings - 18.04

I have a Dell monitor set to a scale of 200%: I then set the laptop built-in display to 100%: However, if I then switch back to the Dell monitor settings, the scale there has reverted to 100%. Is there a way to have 200% scale on the Dell monitor…
dharmatech
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Fix scaling of java-based applications for a high DPI screen

There are some applications (mainly java based) that don't follow the global 2x scale I set in the screen-settings. So these apps are really tiny on my high DPI screen with 3200x1800px. How can I get these apps running in a smaller screen…
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How to scale title bars and menu in Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 with the terminal only

To keep the story short: Out of curiosity I wanted to know how the scale option would look like with value 5.something. Now I'm stuck with a highly oversized system where I can't change anything (because the window, which seems to be fixed in size)…
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Is it Possible to have a different screen scale resolution for each workspace?

I ask because I own a 4k large monitor and its a pain in the ass having to always change the resolution when Apps don't scale well to 4k e.g Steam, Spotify, Runescape(osrs) and other. So what I would like know if its possible to have my main…
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How to change the color of the window outline in spread and switcher?

Staring with Ubuntu 13.04, the outline around windows when scale/spread (Super+W) and the switcher (when viewing different windows of an application using Alt+`) are invoked is red. See the pictures below. The outline stays red even when I change…
Fern Moss
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How to adjust zoom scale in LibreOffice?

When I go into LibreOffice writer and hold up a page to a screen, it is not the same size. If I change the zoom to 117% they are the same size. How do I scale the page size (and not the rest of the LibreOffice UI) so that 117% zoom would be shown as…
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12.04 Unity middle mouse activation of compiz window scaling

That's about the summary of my problem. Just updated to 12.04 and Button2 will no longer activate the compiz 'Scale' facility for window switching. There doesn't seem to be any binding conflicts (in compiz config .. assuming this is the right place…
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Different screen scales for Ubuntu 22.04

This have been an issuse for as long I used Ubuntu, like 2016. How to be able to combine screens with different resolutions. My laptop has a quad-hd resolution and my "large" screens have "just-hd". So to make the laptop-screen usable for text etc…
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Show windows on all workspaces? (scale addon not working)

Possible Duplicate: Scale mode window on same workspace? Is there a way to show windows on ALL WORKSPACES? I can use alt+tab, after changing behaviour through ccsm, but Unity switcher only shows icons, which is very ugly and old-fashioned.…
Bonzo
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Change display properties

I have loaded 18.04 onto an old HP Pavilion 23", which doesn't have a display out. I have a USB display adapter, which is working well and I have a Samsung 32" TV that I'm using as a monitor. When I go to screen display it shows the second monitor…
Steve L
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Enable compiz hot corners in second display

I have CompizConfig installed on Ubuntu 14.04 with the Unity desktop. I wanted to configure a hot corner so that when my mouse hovered on the top right corner of my screen it would trigger what I normally see when I press Super + w. To to this, in…
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KDE Ubuntu 18.04 scaling lower than 1

I have 17" display with Full HD resolution and I need to use smaller scaling than 1, because icons are to big for me. Where I can change it - modify config file - to have such possibility in settings ? Unity offer scaling lower than one, Gnome can…
Tomas Gouzi
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How to keep Displays scale 200%?

I'm running Ubuntu 18.04 on VMware Workstation Pro 16. Everything works fine. But the icon looks really small. I'd like to enlarge it by 200%. So I do Settings->Displays->Scale->200%and apply it. The problem is every time I stretch the window or…
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Ubuntu 21.04 Guest on VMware Workstation 16 Gnome Forgets UI Scale On Resolution Change

I am running Ubuntu 21.04 VMs in VMware Workstation Pro 16.1.2 build-17966106. When toggling between full screen and normal mode (which causes VMware to poke the guest tools to change the virtual monitor resolution to adjust), the VMs forget their…
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Desktop dimensions too zoomed out Ubuntu 20.04

So I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 20.04, and my main issue is that although the screen is correctly captured (I am using VirtualBox!), the Desktop is too zoomed out i.e. icons appear too small, terminal and other apps are too small as well...So far I…
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