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Mittenchops
Asked: 2019-04-20 09:25:54 +0800 CST

Enable fractional scaling for display in ubuntu 19.04

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I understand 19.04 enables experimental fractional scaling from a couple of resources

And others for older Ubuntu versions:

However, when I enable the feature as presented, I get an error that the setting isn't saved:

~$ gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['x11-randr-fractional-scaling']"
GLib-GIO-Message: 12:22:36.852: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings will not be saved or shared with other applications.

Part of the instructions require rebooting to even get the menu to come up in display. How can I enable the ability to enable this setting successfully?

gnome display 19.04

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  1. Best Answer

    It might be that the gsettings you called is not the one provided by the system, but the one provided by, in my case, the conda/anaconda python distribution, which is causing the error message. Then, you can try directly calling the system's /usr/bin/gsettings instead.

    Note, to check the full path to the gsettings you called, try which gsettings.

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