Resurrecting this somewhat. The solutions suggested above are fine if you only have one monitor, but immediately cause issues if you have more than one (and they're not similar in size and resolution).
Here, on two out of my three screens, everything is exactly as I want. The third one is a little large. Rendering at .8 or .9 would be great. What I'd currently have to do is: 1. shrink text 2. shrink dock 3. increase fractional scaling of the other two screens -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1724037 Title: Allow GNOME fractional scaling below 100% Status in Mutter: Unknown Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Triaged Status in mutter package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: It should be possible to scale down the whole shell to less than 100% e.g. 90% 85% etc. thanks ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.26.1-0ubuntu3 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4 Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Mon Oct 16 20:14:43 2017 DisplayManager: gdm3 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.shell' b'favorite-apps' b"['org.gnome.Nautilus.desktop', 'firefox.desktop']" b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'gtk-im-module' b"'gtk-im-context-simple'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-16 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Beta amd64 (20171012) ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm-256color PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=it_IT.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/mutter/+bug/1724037/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
