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How to enable high DPI display scaling in KVM guest?

I've just got brand new Lenovo P1 gen7 with 16" with decent 3840x2400 resolution. Fedora 42 handles it pretty well: it let me set up scaling to whatever suits me, and that's all. However KVM ...
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After upgrade to Plasma 6, some icons are blurry

I have a high DPI display. On X11, I scaled the display to 125% by forcing the font DPI to 120 (which is 96*1.25) as a workaround since Plasma's display scaling always caused slight blurriness of ...
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Unable to run xrdb command to resize cursor when logging in

happy XFCE4 user here, I (unluckily) switched to a notebook with 4k display. I managed to adapt most of the aspects, still when hovering on Chrome or Xfce Terminal the cursor is tiny. I found that ...
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Dual OS (win10/Ubuntu) boot problem

I have installed dual OS Win10/Ubuntu, but I have some boot problems. My computer has a Nvidia GPU with a high refresh rate (144Hz) monitor. The monitor has DP 1.4/HDMI 2.1/Type-C interfaces. I first ...
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How to de-blur Wayland fractional scaling

As far as I understand, all fonts, like SVG, are vector representation, so they scale infinitely well. But here are two magnified "S" characters of the same size, from LibreOffice Writer. ...
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skype window does not show because it opens off screen

After a recent update of Skype it developed these symptoms: I could see its entry in the task bar, but could not show its window by trying to maximize it task bar window preview did show the window's ...
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XTerm fonts' size reduced after system update

This notebook has a 185 dpi display, but I have followed the guidelines for High DPI and everything was, more or less, fine. Today I updated the system (sudo zypper update) and after a reboot the ...
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Scaling of icons does not work for gtkmm applications

I have a 4K display, and the correct scaling would be 3x. I have put Xft.dpi: 300 in .Xresources and GDK_SCALE=3 GDK_DPI_SCALE=-1 in /etc/environment. This can scale most applications, but the C++ ...
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How to set wine DPI from the command line?

I have a high DPI monitor, and every time I create a Wine prefix the default 96 dpi is minuscule. Is there some kind of console command or script I can run to just set the dpi without having to squint ...
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How to change display setting to default in arch linux

I am using Arch Linux mate and I accidentally made my DPI settings really really large and now I can't change them back to a smaller setting because it's so large that it's not visible on my screen to ...
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Which Linux distros have good multi-monitor support for differing DPI, scaling and resolutions?

Which Linux distros have good multi-monitor support for differing DPI, scaling and resolutions? I have 4 27" monitors with 3 resolutions between them: 1080p, 1440p and 4k. Windows handles per ...
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Wayland blurry HiDPI scaling

I'm having issues with scaling on Wayland with Fedora 33 (Radeon 6900 XT, kernel 5.10.15-200). I've got double 4k 27" monitors. Scaling changes the size of UI components correctly, so setting it ...
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X Logical Font Description and HiDPI

The problem: X-server serves fonts at a fixed resolution of 100dpi, rather than the current window system resolution (xdpyinfo | grep -F resolution). A bit of theory. There are legacy server-side ...
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Help correcting gimp font size

I'm using X1C gen 7 4k, xfce, lightdm, uefi & grub install Arch wiki wrote: Gimp 2.10 To fix toolbar icon sizes, update Preferences->Interface->Icon Theme->Custom icon size to huge or ...
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How to use HiDPI mode / scaling in Shotcut?

How to increase UI size, density, font size, and UI scaling to HiDPI mode in Shotcut (using QT) open source editing program?
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