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You can. KDE Wayland allows you to even set fractional scaling. I had 125% on one monitor and 100% on three others. all work like a chgarm
by kronicum2025 10mo ago
You can. KDE Wayland allows you to even set fractional scaling. I had 125% on one monitor and 100% on three others. all work like a chgarm
- kanbankaren 10mo agoHow did you arrive at 125%? What is the formula? Just eyeballing? I set DPI so that a 15pt font occupies 15pt physical space on screen. Not sure how to set DPI using fractional scaling.
- electroly 10mo agoThe formula is DPI ÷ 96. 100% is 96 dpi, 125% is 120 dpi.
- kanbankaren 10mo agoMy monitor DPI is 70. 70/96 is 0.73, but there doesn't seem to be a way to set 73%?
- electroly 10mo agoYou might be out of luck. I don't think it's possible to set the scaling lower than 100%. DPI scaling is primarily concerned with high-DPI.
- kanbankaren 10mo agoThat is why some of us still need X11 support.
- kronicum2025 10mo agoI could set my screen to 75%, not really 73% but close may be?
- kanbankaren 10mo agoHow did you do it? It doesn't allow any value below 100%?
- ndiddy 10mo agoOn KDE you can just type a number into the scale percentage field in the display configuration settings pane. I typed "73" and it snapped to 72.5 which is probably close enough. I don't know whether GNOME supports anything similar, unlike KDE they really don't like giving users very many configuration options.
- kanbankaren 10mo agoI tried it on KDE Plasma(6.5.3) just now and it resets to 100%.
- ndiddy 10mo agoWeird, mine lets me go down to 50%: https://files.catbox.moe/gjuzl6.png https://files.catbox.moe/gjuzl6.png . Out of curiosity, do you use an nVidia graphics card? I know in the past their drivers have had problems with scaling on Linux.
- kronicum2025 10mo agoThe other commentator is right. I have an AMD graphics card and I can do this as well. https://imgur.com/a/7mjm8O9 https://imgur.com/a/7mjm8O9
- surajrmal 10mo agoDoesn't that depend on how far you sit from the screen?