The Spotify client installed from the snap store is barely usable on HiDPI displays and there seem to be no built-in options to scale the UI. Is there a workaround to scale it?
My screen resolution is 2560x1440 and I am using fractional scaling at 125%.
Steam fonts are unreadable (see the screenshot and compare with the size of the Chrome icon).
XFCE 4.14 promises HiDPI support. I'd like to use different DPI settings on my laptop screen and on the external monitor, but I can't find any new features improving this particular situation. So what does "HiDPI support" mean then? Is this for Wayland + XFCE only?
What I did before XFCE 4.14
This seems to work for < 4.14 and for >= 4.14 the same way:
Custom DPI settings in Appearance -> Fonts allows changing scaling of windows for both monitors at the same time:
This works only for one screen unfortunately. The best I could come up with is adding this script as shortcut to toggle between different settings:
if [ $(xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/DPI) = 152 ]
then
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/DPI -s 96
else
xfconf-query -c xsettings -p /Xft/DPI -s 152
fi
Many applications (Firefox, Thunderbird, ...) need to be restarted after changing this setting unfortunately.
What is new but doesn't help
I think the Window scaling option is new (but I'm not sure), but it offers only 1x or 2x scaling for both screens at the same time. This is not helping in my situation.
xrandr
Not sure if this worked too before, but it kind of does now:
xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale "0.5x0.5"
This sets the Laptop display to a scaling factor 2. But fonts are quite blurry. This does not happen with the Custom DPI setting.
I have a Dell XPS 15-9560 laptop with 15.6" 4K Ultra HD (3840 x 2160) IGZO IPS 350-nits Touch-screen, and NVIDIA GeForce GTX1050 4GB GDDR5. It's having 4K resolution. Right from the grub screen to Ubuntu, it's having very very small fonts. Is there any way i can increase the fonts size?
This is a real nice laptop - real MacBook Pro killer..getting very popular...and i can see a lot of folks will be having the same issue.
Edit 1
I messed up my current installation of ubuntu desktop 18.04 LTS and have to reinstall it all over again. Just tried this one now: Adding nouveau.modeset=0 to the boot parameters was much better workaround for smaller fonts and i am having much better resolution now. It's much better solution than others as of now.
Seems to ubuntu18.04 LTS is not as stable and much more complex issues with Nvidia graphics card than the previous versions.
Although I know how to tweak here and there..
I wonder if there is any Ubuntu 16.04 (or newer) variant that specializes or works 'out-of-the-box' with HiDPI screens.
For that matter, it would be interesting to know any good and recent Linux distribution that works well with HiDPI...
Update:
Thanks for you answers but I am not looking for a way to adjust my machine. I am aware of these tweaks and I am already using a few of them. My question was more towards which Ubuntu variant (such as Mate, Mint, etc.) handles HiDPI well. For Ubuntu Mate it is part of their roadmap but not there yet. I wonder if there is something already available.