Then copy to /etc/X11/nf and modify it asĪ similar method is also demonstrated on AU here. Manually specify X configuration information. In most cases, this works well and there is no need to The X configuration is automatically determined each time X To make things more interesting, many distributions these days do notĬreate a /etc/X11/nf file, used to configure the X server, byĭefault. Restarted for the changes to take effect.

Simulate high DPI (make everything appear larger) or bigger numbersįor low DPI (make everything appear smaller). Use smaller numbers than the real dimension to Value is then calculated from these numbers and the monitor image's Where the display size (width and height) is in millimeters. It looks somewhat like this: Section 'Monitor' In /etc/X11/nf addĭisplaySize and Option 'UseEdidDpi' to the monitor section so that Would also help to test proper scaling behaviour. Lacks a convenient way to scale everything uniformly. Not work correctly or not be to the user's preferences. Ideally the screen size (width and height of the monitor screen) isĪutomatically detected using the monitor's EDID information. Note you will need to restart the desktop and applications for it to take effect.Īnother method (from the KDE Wiki), is to configure the X DPI settings: This is the method suggested for doing this in the Arch Wiki To scale some other parts of the display, you can also change the icon size at 'Application' > 'Icons' as well. With KDE 4 atleast you can adjust the font sizes (and/or DPI settings) in 'Application' > 'Fonts'

Icon resize xubuntu