What happened to GNOME letting it be possible to scale display fractionally?

youniquegeek · 07-09-2022, 06:58 AM

Okay, this use to work for me as it did for even a writer over at dedoimedo.com but as you can see, he explains how to actually make it so the Display Settings in GNOME actually do like Plasma does and lets you scale your display in fractions, mine needing to be 125% to be just right on my HD screen. It used to work, and I think it was GNOME using Xorg too, but now on newer GNOME 3.38+ releases, at least for GNOME on Xorg, it will not work, however using Wayland it does. But I really don't like Wayland. But look at the screenshot for the command that the writer suggested I put in a terminal to fix the issue two years ago. There's no reason that shouldn't still work, or am I wrong? I HAVE to get this fractional scaling down, or I can never use GNOME. I mean KDE Plasma knows how too, why can't GNOME, XFCE or the other devs? And no, we're not talking scaling fonts here. That reduces the quality of the fonts that already are suffering in Linux as it. Anyone with knowledge or a solution please hit me back. And let me be clear, the fellow who writes at (Dedoimedo) is a super smart guy so he's hardly ever wrong, his articles just become outdated I guess, but not his fault in terms of the facts of the times. Thanks.

mrmazda · 07-09-2022, 05:45 PM

What does xrdb -query | grep dpi report? Does ~/.Xresources exist? If yes, does Xft.dpi: exist in it? If the answers are no or 96, try putting Xft.dpi: 120 in ~/.Xresources and restarting your Gnome session. Xft.dpi is the method by which Plasma sets DPI, and the method by which Gnome performs its scaling, which sounds like it's broken on your system.