Hello.
Hope you are doing well, and thank you in advance for reading this.
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PROBLEMS or
TRIED FIXES sections if that helps save your time.
I am using Linux Mint XFCE 21 (Latest version) on an ASUS Vivobook Laptop and running 2 External Monitors (using VGA Splitter) as Secondary Display.
Backstory:
The first time I had installed Linux Mint XFCE 20, it had some screen resolution, text size, icon size, button size, title bar and panel sizes, and display issues.
I had gone over this forum and resolved to solve them.
Today I changed my old VGA cable and plugged in VGA Extender connected by Ethernet Cable to my External Monitor.
Then the problems started happening -
1. The screen resolution has been completely broken with the VGA Extender and Ethernet Cable connecting to External Monitor
2. The text size, icon size, button size, title bar and panel sizes were all too small.
3. The display looks broken - as in stretched or breaking. Its a bit hard to explain, hence I am providing images shortly.
I went over this forum again and tried to fix it.
I tried several suggestions - changing font size options, scaling options, and resolution options.
But none of them were working.
Then I restarted my PC, and all the fonts became huge!
- I think Linux Mint XFCE was NOT rendering the changes until restart, and I thought it was not working, so set large values to test it. And after restart, everything went huge and now I cant even use my PC (cant navigate around PC or do anything - all the windows and buttons and options get cut off and flow out of screen due to their size!)
I first used Timeshift to go back to a previous version where things were working. But it seems Linux Mint XFCE kept track of the customization to display settings (font size, etc) and there was no change (everything was still huge).
I somehow managed to press ALT+SPACE and used the keyboard to select move and tried moving the windows and opening terminal.
From there I upgraded Linux Mint XFCE from 20 to 21 and installed all the latest updates (hoping it would undo the mistake). The upgrade was successful, but the broken settings which I had mistakenly saved were still in action (they were not erased by the upgrade).
I tried tweaking the settings and restarting every now and then, and managed to resolve a lot of the problems. But some of them are still remaining and I am having a hard time fixing them.
Some of the problems remaining:
1, Screen resolution is still broken / looks weird :
https://pasteboard.co/5pAuIg44jzgE.png
2. The Panel (Task bar) icon sizes are not consistent :
Some are too large, some are too small
https://pasteboard.co/fpjZdsyxKkQ7.png
3. The Start Menu Icons are huge:
https://pasteboard.co/ZrgAmsYcWyHL.png
4. The icons are huge globally:
https://pasteboard.co/PNwlXldC0YUI.png
5. All the panels are of broken sizes (either too large or too small):
https://pasteboard.co/cijVLeZVkUhR.png
6. The Title Bar, Title Bar Text and Title Bar Buttons - size is also not consistent (huge in some places, small in some):
https://pasteboard.co/DeyE4tdXZwGf.png
https://pasteboard.co/5EmbOhe4Wp3T.png
7. All Windows/Apps are opening in disproportionate / huge sizes - they are going out of the screen due to being so huge:
https://pasteboard.co/spfMKvZCI33Y.png
8. The notifications are also huge - the notification icon is huge, the text is tiny.
9. The Desktop Icons and Texts are tiny:
https://pasteboard.co/6ywthpdiSNRn.png
Some of the things I have tried tweaking:
1. Changing Size in Desktop > Right Click > Desktop Settings > Icons -
https://pasteboard.co/efl9bo53YDmV.png
2. Changing the Resolution in Start > Display > General -
https://pasteboard.co/756w7xWqdF4X.png
3, Changing the Font Size in Start > Window Manager > Style -
https://pasteboard.co/LabdD4RVpcQa.png
4. Changing the Font Size and Custom DPI Settings in Start > Appearance > Fonts -
https://pasteboard.co/OCdehBPeiCbm.png
5. Changing Row Size in Settings > Panel > Display -
https://pasteboard.co/fIWz7dIJAbth.png
6. Changing Size and DPI Settings in Start > KDE System Settings -
https://pasteboard.co/gtGVObjDLaU1.png
I have been trying all day to fix these issues, but have not been able to.
Please guide me how I can fix these. Your time and effort is greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Waiting eagerly for any solution or suggestion.
P.s. I am also adding the output of the following command
if it helps:
Output:
Code:
scarlet@Scarlet:/media/scarlet$ inxi -Fxxxz
System:
Kernel: 5.15.0-72-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 11.3.0
Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 tk: Gtk 3.24.23 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm 4.16.1
vt: 7 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 Distro: Linux Mint 21 Vanessa
base: Ubuntu 22.04 jammy
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: ASUSTeK product: X542UN v: 1.0
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: X542UN v: 1.0 serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: X542UN.309 date: 09/02/2019
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 24.6 Wh (100.0%) condition: 24.6/38.0 Wh (64.7%)
volts: 7.6 min: 7.6 model: ASUSTeK ASUS Battery type: Li-ion serial: N/A
status: Not charging cycles: 120
CPU:
Info: quad core model: Intel Core i7-8550U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
smt: enabled arch: Coffee Lake rev: A cache: L1: 256 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 400/4000 cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800
4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800 8: 800 bogomips: 31999
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: ASUSTeK driver: i915 v: kernel
ports: active: DP-1 off: eDP-1 empty: HDMI-A-1,HDMI-A-2 bus-ID: 00:02.0
chip-ID: 8086:5917 class-ID: 0300
Device-2: NVIDIA GP108M [GeForce MX150] vendor: ASUSTeK driver: nvidia
v: 525.105.17 pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 4 bus-ID: 01:00.0
chip-ID: 10de:1d10 class-ID: 0302
Device-3: IMC Networks USB2.0 VGA UVC WebCam type: USB driver: uvcvideo
bus-ID: 1-6:5 chip-ID: 13d3:5a01 class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.4 compositor: xfwm v: 4.16.1 driver:
X: loaded: modesetting,nouveau unloaded: fbdev,vesa gpu: i915
display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1536x1152 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 406x305mm (16.0x12.0")
s-diag: 508mm (20")
Monitor-1: DP-1 res: 1536x1152 hz: 60 size: N/A modes: max: 1024x768
min: 640x480
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 22.2.5 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71
class-ID: 0403
Device-2: Generalplus USB Audio Device type: USB
driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus-ID: 1-3:3 chip-ID: 1b3f:2008
class-ID: 0300
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.0-72-generic running: yes
Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.99.1 running: yes
Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.48 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 1
port: d000 bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp2s0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9377 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: AzureWave driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel pcie: speed: 2.5 GT/s
lanes: 1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:0042 class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
Device-3: Realtek RTL8152 Fast Ethernet Adapter type: USB driver: r8152
bus-ID: 1-4.4.1:9 chip-ID: 0bda:8152 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
IF: enx00e04c360976 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: IMC Networks type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-8:7
chip-ID: 13d3:3496 class-ID: e001
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: down
bt-service: enabled,running rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes
address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.96 TiB used: 380.07 GiB (19.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Intel model: SSDSC2KW010T8 size: 953.87 GiB
speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0B1C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: SK Hynix model: HFS128G39TND-N210A
size: 119.24 GiB speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0P10
ID-3: /dev/sdd type: USB vendor: HGST (Hitachi) model: HTS 541010B7E610
size: 931.51 GiB type: N/A serial: <filter> rev: 03.0 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 937.33 GiB used: 141.73 GiB (15.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: file size: 2 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) priority: -2
file: /swapfile
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 60.0 C pch: 55.5 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 3500
Info:
Processes: 381 Uptime: 1h 56m wakeups: 1 Memory: 15.51 GiB
used: 6.69 GiB (43.1%) Init: systemd v: 249 runlevel: 5 Compilers:
gcc: 11.3.0 alt: 11/12 Packages: 3210 apt: 3168 flatpak: 42 Shell: Bash
v: 5.1.16 running-in: xfce4-terminal inxi: 3.3.13
