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fikovnik

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Registered: 2020-11-06

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Is there a way to fix laptop resolution and scaling?

Hi,

I have Lenovo X13 yoga running Gnome 45 on Wayland. The builtin native resolution is 2560x1600 which is rather unfortunate because with 100% scaling it is too small, with 200% it is too big.
The problem is that  pretty much every time I plug in external display (I'm university professor so I do that a lot) it resets itself to the native resolution and 200% scaling.

Is there a way to fix the builtin screen to 1920x1200 with 100% scale ideally since GDM session?

Thank you!

Lone_Wolf

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Re: Is there a way to fix laptop resolution and scaling?

Have you tried fractional scaling ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2023-11-03 10:25:45)

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fikovnik

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Registered: 2020-11-06

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Re: Is there a way to fix laptop resolution and scaling?

Thanks for the hint. I tried it, but the factional scaling does not prevent gnome picking up the native resolution every time I plug in an external display.

seth

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Re: Is there a way to fix laptop resolution and scaling?

When looking for how to disable gnome's screen autoconfig 2 weeks ago I couldn't find anything but a dumb comment about why you'd be dumb for wanting such
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 9#p2126409
"gnome"

For your specific situation, you could override the EDID, https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Kernel … s_and_EDID
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wxedid if you need to edit the original one because it uses non-standard modes.

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fikovnik

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Registered: 2020-11-06

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Re: Is there a way to fix laptop resolution and scaling?

Thank you! This looks like a way to fix it.