I'm on an iMac, so I want to make use of my Retina (hj-dpi) screen,
while also using external screens that are not hi-dpi.
I can confirm no good X11 support for separate dpis per screen. I was
able to mess around with xrandr, but I got ghosting on my mouse cursor
that I could not resolve.
It looks like it's working now in Ubuntu 17.10! In the display settings
you can set the resolution and the scaling individually per monitor if
you are using Wayland. You might have to turn on fractional scaling (see
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/09/enable-fractional-scaling-gnome-
linux).
If I
@Kai: You can set per-monitor scaling by setting
org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor to zero, and then Wayland
figures out the scaling automatically. But it only works for apps that
support Wayland directly (like nautilus), not for apps that run under
XWayland (like chrome and firefox and
I'm using Wayland + GNOME 3.26 on Artful.
How do I get multiple DPIs to work?
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Title:
Scaling factors for HiDPI on multiple monitors
To manage
Xorg simply doesn't allow to have different DPIs on different displays.
Wayland supports it more or less decently.
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Title:
Scaling factors for
In case it helps, X provides a sort-of workaround using the xrandr
--scale option. For instance, I have a 3840x2160 HiDPI laptop monitor
(eDP1) and an external 1680x1050 monitor (HDMI1) above it. With this
setup I can make the text etc size approximately the same on both
monitors with this
** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
** Also affects: gnome-control-center
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Status: New
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Status: New => Confirmed
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Hello,
a bug report for my problem was suggested here:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/274062
I also created a question at askubuntu:
http://askubuntu.com/questions/614301/how-to-set-different-scaling-on-multiple-monitors
I'm trying to use an
