Re: setting screen resolution at boot

[stan]

On Thu, 01 Mar 2018 19:54:08 -0700
JD  wrote:
 
> Interesting!!! I am not familiar with that, as this is the first time
> I am encountering this problem of fedora on a 1920x1200 screen.
> 1. Default fonts are just too small.
> 2. Icons of running apps on the bottom panel of Mate DT
>  are incredibly small and undiscernible.
> 3. On the first gui login creen, if  click on the tiny icon of power
> switch, the drop down menu is so tiny,  I have to use 2.0 power
> reading glasses to see where the Shutdown, or Restart selections are.

I can understand why you want to fix this.

> I have done that, but I thought it is a rather kludgey thing to do,
> because there does not seem to be a system-wide setting that
> is used by all components of system and apps.

You might get some ideas from this older question from someone with the
same issue.
https://askubuntu.com/questions/675015/high-resolution-screen-creates-tiny-icons-and-text-with-mate-desktop
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Re: setting screen resolution at boot

[JD]

On 03/01/2018 06:37 PM, stan wrote:

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:47:25 -0700
JD  wrote:


Hi all,
on fc27:
how do I set the screen resolution to less than 1920X1080 ?
I would like to reduce it to something like  1280X1080
Is that "doable"? (Pardon my use of doable :) :)
I would like the DT (Mate) to respect that resolution and show
everything on desktop as if that is the HW resolution.

I think you meant 1280x720.  But if your monitor is digital, this is a
bad idea.  There was a recent discussion on this list about why it is a
bad idea; the summary is that the dots will not align properly for
text on a lower resolution.  Everything will look fuzzy.

Interesting!!! I am not familiar with that, as this is the first time I am
encountering this problem of fedora on a 1920x1200 screen.
1. Default fonts are just too small.
2. Icons of running apps on the bottom panel of Mate DT
are incredibly small and undiscernible.
3. On the first gui login creen, if  click on the tiny icon of power switch,
the drop down menu is so tiny,  I have to use 2.0 power reading glasses
to see where the Shutdown, or Restart selections are.



If you are using X, and an analog monitor, you can put a configuration
file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d.  A search on the web will give you
the format.  Use xrandr to get the numbers to plug in.

This is a laptop, so no, it is not an old analog display :)


I don't know how to do this for wayland.

But I think the better thing for you to do is to up the size of fonts
that everything uses, if possible.  Text will look a lot better.

I have done that, but I thought it is a rather kludgey thing to do,
because there does not seem to be a system-wide setting that
is used by all components of system and apps.

Thanx for the heads up.
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Re: setting screen resolution at boot

[stan]

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 19:47:25 -0700
JD  wrote:

> Hi all,
> on fc27:
> how do I set the screen resolution to less than 1920X1080 ?
> I would like to reduce it to something like  1280X1080
> Is that "doable"? (Pardon my use of doable :) :)
> I would like the DT (Mate) to respect that resolution and show
> everything on desktop as if that is the HW resolution.

I think you meant 1280x720.  But if your monitor is digital, this is a
bad idea.  There was a recent discussion on this list about why it is a
bad idea; the summary is that the dots will not align properly for
text on a lower resolution.  Everything will look fuzzy.

If you are using X, and an analog monitor, you can put a configuration
file in /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d.  A search on the web will give you
the format.  Use xrandr to get the numbers to plug in.

I don't know how to do this for wayland.

But I think the better thing for you to do is to up the size of fonts
that everything uses, if possible.  Text will look a lot better.
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