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ahmed_elsawy

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Registered: 2017-12-01

Posts: 4

GUI elements are very small. how to change their size?

hello, my screen resolution is big. the fonts, icons, etc.. are too small. I wanted to use another resolution? to solve this issue.

first: I want to know if that is the best solution to make fonts in shell or GUI elements look normal.

second: I was not able to use newmode in xrandr!

I tried to follow the instructions on the wiki page, but I was not able to addmode

The output of

xrandr

after running

xrandr --newmode  "1200x800_60.00"   78.00  1200 1264 1384 1568  800 803 813 831 -hsync +vsync

is:

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1280 x 960, maximum 8192 x 8192
eDP-1 connected primary 1280x960+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 259mm x 173mm
   2400x1600     59.98 +
   2048x1536     60.00  
   1920x1440     60.00  
   1856x1392     60.01  
   1792x1344     60.01  
   1600x1200     60.00  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1280x960      60.00* 
   1024x768      60.04    60.00  
   960x720       60.00  
   928x696       60.05  
   896x672       60.01  
   800x600       60.00    60.32    56.25  
   700x525       59.98  
   640x512       60.02  
   640x480       60.00    59.94  
   512x384       60.00  
   400x300       60.32    56.34  
   320x240       60.05  
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
HDMI-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
  "1200x800_60.00" (0x13a) 78.000MHz -HSync +VSync
        h: width  1200 start 1264 end 1384 total 1568 skew    0 clock  49.74KHz
        v: height  800 start  803 end  813 total  831           clock  59.86Hz

running

xrandr --addmode eDP-1 1200x800

produces:

xrandr: cannot find mode "1200x800"

any help is appreciated

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: GUI elements are very small. how to change their size?

Welcome to the forums ahmed_elsawy

Lowering your resolution from the native panel specs isn't a good idea.
Please search the wiki before posting...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI

Last edited by Slithery (2017-12-01 22:39:23)

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ahmed_elsawy

Member

Registered: 2017-12-01

Posts: 4

Re: GUI elements are very small. how to change their size?

that is great! thanks for help anyway. the wiki is awesome.

Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 6,963

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Re: GUI elements are very small. how to change their size?

You can also try setting the dpi with xrandr, e.g.

xrandr --dpi 110

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