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smccully

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Registered: 2014-10-15

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Dell XPS 2016 -- HiDPI and External Monitor

Wondering if anybody has any suggestions. Not sure that it matters but running latest Dell XPS which has a default 3200x1800. The default scaling in say Gnome works well enough, and KDE. The problem becomes when I connect an external monitor (widescreen, 2560x1080) because of the scaling for the Laptop Screen (eDP-1) the External Monitor (HDMI-1) is grossly magnified.

Changing the default scaling for HDMI, and eDP is becomes unreadable. It doesn't appear any of the Desktop Environments natively support have different DPI/Scaling for each Screen.

Anybody running a smilar setup, what are you doing to work around?

Last edited by smccully (2016-10-29 17:52:16)

frank604

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From: BC, Canada

Registered: 2011-04-20

Posts: 1,212

Re: Dell XPS 2016 -- HiDPI and External Monitor

I have pretty much the same issue. Hidpi with lowdpi external https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=218890