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rathernot

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Registered: 2019-08-04

Posts: 6

Scaling external 4k monitor attached to a 14" HD internal

I  have  a Thinkpad T490 with HD (1920x1080). When I plug in my external 4k monitor (3840x2160), everything is tiny.

I want to use my external monitor as the only monitor, so I don't have to care about scaling both displays accordingly. What I want is to save my

xrandr

config via

autorandr

and once plugged in, scale the resolution and turn off the internal monitor.

So far I have:

xrandr --output eDP1 --off --output DP1 --mode 3840x2160 --rate 60 --scale 0.75x0.75

Now the text is super blurry and a bit stretched. Is there a better way of doing this? Somehow if I scale up (1.25x1.25), the resolution is getting smaller. How can I prevent blurry fonts after scaling?

Last edited by rathernot (2019-08-04 19:08:51)