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young_kaneda

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Registered: 2022-10-04

Posts: 21

Big screen resolution makes everything tiny

Hello, my current setup is a lenovo legion pro 5i with a geforce rtx4070 Max-Q (without an intel graphics).

I am using LXDE but I am facing some problems about resolutions, icon/font/cursor sizes that I found some workarounds for specific things, but I want to know if there is a single solution for all because I think that is a problem of me not understanding how linux deal with resolutions and stuff. So my problem is that i hava a 2560x1600 resolution and everyhting is too small and I want to know a way to just make things larger equally maintaining the sharpness.

I am using the nivida driver and its using the default 2560x1600 res that is isolated to Xorg, and nvidia just allow me to scale to the other resolutions making them not native. I will list the solutions I tried:
1. scaling the resolution with the nvidia settings make things blurry as hell.
2. scalling using xradr scale eg.; "xrandr DP-4 --scale 0.75x0.75" also make things blurry.
3. changing in .Xresources the Xft.dpi worked for the fonts, yeah!
4. LXDE has configurations for icon sizes, so I need to make them bigger to match the text.
5. Xcursor.size does not seems to make any difference.

I wanted a solution that just worked for everything at once, because even doing what I said above I have still some problems like, grub will still have tiny text as also the display manager, and even the console if I just access the tty or kill the Xorg. Any help that could shed light in all problems at once?

archlynovice

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Registered: 2023-10-22

Posts: 28

Re: Big screen resolution makes everything tiny

From what I know (not a lot), there is no all-in-one solution to this. I'm on Wayland and don't use LXDE, so this will be limited in usefulness:

Starting with Grub & tty, this wiki entry should solve your problem.

LXDE does not seem to have hidpi support by itself. You should be able to approach this from one layer below: X. You've already tried some of these. After making changes, did you restart your session? Changes might not be present immediately. Have you followed the the wiki section thoroughly?

live4thamuzik

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Registered: 2024-02-27

Posts: 49

Re: Big screen resolution makes everything tiny

I have the same laptop as you @young_kaneda except I have the onboard intel graphics with the RTX4070 Mobile. However I am using wayland and Hyprland. I wish I could help more with your DE but I've never used LXDE. Nor do I know enough about Xorg to comment there.

In testing I found GNOME and Plasma scale nicely with little effort.

As far as grub goes I am using: (side note, I also have GRUB theme Poly-Dark installed)

 GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="nvidia_drm.modeset=1"         // I have the DKMS driver in respect to Hyprland and Linux-tkg-PDS kernel so this may not be correct for your config.
 
GRUB_GFXMODE=1280x1024x32,auto

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,266

Re: Big screen resolution makes everything tiny

This wiki article has a lot of relevant information: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI

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