On 2025-08-20, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote: > > There seem to be at least two places where I can adjust things (I'm > running xfce4 on Debian 12 at present):- > > Settings->Appearance->Fonts has 'DPI', if I increase this everything > gets bigger. > > Settings->Display has 'Scale', if I set this to (say) 0.8 everything > gets bigger. > > I can see these work slightly differently but what I'd really like to > know is which provides the better/sharper result. Is there any > difference and/or are there other better ways to achieve what I want? >
If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make? 'xrandr' is the tool people usually talk about for this sort of thing (3840×2160).
