I was aware of the irony - I just chose to provide help because some of us don't have an option to use anything other than desktop linux in this configuration a

I was aware of the irony - I just chose to provide help because some of us don't have an option to use anything other than desktop linux in this configuration and the gist is helpful to others. It's clearly not a just works solution, as I stated in the comment, but it does solve the problem until Wayland comes together and provides us with a proper scaling solution.