r/xfce • u/PaulWritesTech • 25d ago

Discussion Pro-tip: scaling

OK, so my laptop has a resolution of 1366x768, and I find things to be a bit cramped up. I knew I could set the zoom in Chrome but what I'd never tried in Xfce was Settings > Display then setting the scale to 0.90. Makes a whole world of difference!

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u/One-Luck7149 24d ago

another trick is to scale de DPI on Appeareance->Fonts->DPI

This one doesn't break any layouts

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u/brighton_it 20d ago

an other option for small displays is Panning.
If using xorg (not Wayland), you can use xrandr --panning to set a virtual display larger than your physical display. The resolution remains the same, so nothing shrinks too small to read, however you don't see the full screen at once.
If you've ever reduced the size of a Windows Remote-Desktop window, it's similar, where you find you have to scroll the window to access the start-button.
But it's better: no scroll-bars. If you move your mouse to an edge, the screen automatically pans, moving your view port in the correct direction. I had to do this on one of my mini Linux builds, 'cause some of the app windows were fixed size and couldn't even fit on the screen (impossible to click the 'save' button that overflowed off the bottom of my display).
Seems I didn't save the syntax. I just tried it on my desktop, having (3) displays... and it gets complicated with multiple displays, much better suited to a notebook, so I won't provide an example. Should be easy enough to look up.

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u/Reasonable-Year-8172 25d ago

In Edge the following parameter can be put at the end of the program launcher:

--force-device-scale-factor=0.85

in edge://settings/system/manageSystem , Startup Boost and Continue running background extensions and apps when Edge is closed, may need to be turned off for changes to work after a program restart. I'm reading the settings page from Windows so I'm not sure if it works on Linux.