I have Dell XPS 15 7590 with 4K touch display (resolution 3840 x 2160). Then I have a Samsung 27" monitor with resolution 2560x1440 which is placed above my laptop's screen.
I would somehow like to achieve to set scale on laptop's 4K to 200% (as 100% on 15 inch 4K is making everything super small) and external Samsung display to 100%. However it looks like it is not possible to have different scales on Ubuntu 18.04.
I found here that there is possibility to make it work like that using xrandr
to (in my case) double Samsung's resolution and then just set all to 200%. However I am not very familiar with this and I am not sure how exactly to execute it in my case and not break it. This is how standard xrandr
command output looks like in my case:
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 3840 x 3600, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 3840x2160+0+1440 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 344mm x 194mm
3840x2160 60.00*+ 59.98 59.97
3200x1800 59.96 59.94
2880x1620 59.96 59.97
2560x1600 59.99 59.97
2560x1440 59.99 59.99 59.96 59.95
2048x1536 60.00
1920x1440 60.00
1856x1392 60.01
1792x1344 60.01
2048x1152 59.99 59.98 59.90 59.91
1920x1200 59.88 59.95
1920x1080 60.01 59.97 59.96 59.93
1600x1200 60.00
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1600x1024 60.17
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 60.02
1440x900 59.89
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 60.00
1440x810 60.00 59.97
1368x768 59.88 59.85
1360x768 59.80 59.96
1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91
1152x864 60.00
1280x720 60.00 59.99 59.86 59.74
1024x768 60.04 60.00
960x720 60.00
928x696 60.05
896x672 60.01
1024x576 59.95 59.96 59.90 59.82
960x600 59.93 60.00
960x540 59.96 59.99 59.63 59.82
800x600 60.00 60.32 56.25
840x525 60.01 59.88
864x486 59.92 59.57
800x512 60.17
700x525 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 60.02
720x450 59.89
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
684x384 59.88 59.85
680x384 59.80 59.96
640x400 59.88 59.98
576x432 60.06
640x360 59.86 59.83 59.84 59.32
512x384 60.00
512x288 60.00 59.92
480x270 59.63 59.82
400x300 60.32 56.34
432x243 59.92 59.57
320x240 60.05
360x202 59.51 59.13
320x180 59.84 59.32
DP-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-2 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DP-3 connected 2560x1440+720+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 597mm x 336mm
2560x1440 59.95*+
1920x1080 60.00 50.00 59.94
1680x1050 59.88
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 75.02 60.02
1440x900 59.90
1280x800 59.91
1152x864 75.00
1280x720 60.00 50.00 59.94
1024x768 75.03 70.07 60.00
832x624 74.55
800x600 72.19 75.00 60.32 56.25
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 75.00 72.81 66.67 60.00 59.94
720x400 70.08
I did some research and found one way (based on this solution) to do that.
First I set 200% scale in Display settings.
Command to check current setup:
In my case returning:
And these are 2 commands to change it as I want:
Notes about numbers I used (to have laptop's screen in the middle below external monitor:
After that I have:
To revert back:
This is still quite tricky way to do it so I will be happy for any other solutions.
UPDATE:
This change is actually causing that mouse cursor is flickering. I found solution based on this post and run one extra command to fix it (even though it is kind of a hacky solution):
So the full command in my case is:
Note: I experienced this flickering only while using intel graphics. I did not see any flickering with nvidia (using
prime-select
and restart to switch).UPDATE 2: Using
scale 0.9999x0.9999
is not a good idea. It slows down monitor reactions and you can notice some lags when watching videos.