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GeinGaaf
I’m new to linux. Just installed antiX on a HP mini, 1024×600 tiny screen ~96 dpi. So, relative to the physical screen size, everything looks huge. Changed font dpi to 86, the lower it goes, already looks a little better, but doesn’t affect most apps. Any lights? My focus is on the Libre Office stuff, if theres no way to change it all. Thanks.
sybok
1) Is it possible to change screen resolution?
Control Centre -> Session -> Set Screen Resolution (double click, pop-up window opens)
Pop-up window: Outputs (in main menu) -> <select the monitor, VGA-0 in my case> -> Resolution.
The available values depend on your monitor.
2) Please post the output of ‘inxi -Fzr’ in future (this will allow to asses capabilities of your HW).1. It is possible to change, but it’s already at the max resolution.
2.System:
Host: antix1 Kernel: 4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp x86_64 bits: 64
Desktop: IceWM 1.8.3
Distro: antiX-19.3_x64-full Manolis Glezos 15 October 2020
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP Mini 110 NoteBook PC
v: 058F110000202B00000300100 serial: <filter>
Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 148A v: 79.4B serial: <filter>
BIOS: Hewlett-Packard v: F.15 date: 01/14/2011
CPU:
Topology: Single Core model: Intel Atom N455 bits: 64 type: MT
L2 cache: 512 KiB
Speed: 1333 MHz min/max: 1000/1666 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1333 2: 1666
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel Atom Processor D4xx/D5xx/N4xx/N5xx Integrated Graphics
driver: i915 v: kernel
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: intel resolution: 1024×600~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Pineview M v: 1.4 Mesa 18.3.6
Audio:
Device-1: Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.9.235-antix.1-amd64-smp
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8101/2/6E PCI Express Fast/Gigabit Ethernet
driver: r8169
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Broadcom Limited BCM4313 802.11bgn Wireless Network Adapter
driver: bcma-pci-bridge
IF-ID-1: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 314.28 GiB used: 9.15 GiB (2.9%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST9320320AS size: 298.09 GiB
ID-2: /dev/sdb type: USB vendor: SanDisk model: Cruzer Fit size: 14.32 GiB
ID-3: /dev/sdc model: xD/SD/M.S. size: 1.86 GiB
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 290.41 GiB used: 4.98 GiB (1.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
ID-2: swap-1 size: 2.00 GiB used: 130.8 MiB (6.4%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda2
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 62.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Repos:
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/antix.list
1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/antix/buster buster main nonfree nosystemd
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/buster-backports.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
2: deb http://security.debian.org/ buster/updates main contrib non-free
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/onion.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list
Dave
I think you can use xrandr with the –scale option for this.
For simplicity, if you do not feel like constructing an xrandr script, you can use arandr from the control centre to set up the standard resolution. Save the settings to a file. Then open that file and copy the contents adding (or modifying) the –scale option. Maybe something similar to –scale 0.7×0.7 or maybe the inverse I cannot recall (–scale 1.3×1.3)Computers are like air conditioners. They work fine until you start opening Windows. ~Author Unknown
BobC
To expand on Dave’s idea:
I open a terminal. I run arandr and save as my current settings overlaying ~/.screenlayout/default.sh. Then I go edit the file with geany and add the “–scale 1.5×1.5” at the end of the parameters for the output that you want to adust, in my case that is LVDS1. Then save the changes and close geany. Then run the script. Then restart the desktop-session. If 1.5 makes the characters too big or too small, a higher number will make the characters smaller, and a lower number will make them larger. I would do this before opening any programs.
$ arandr bobc@antix1:~ $ cd .screenlayout bobc@antix1:~/.screenlayout $ geany ./default.sh bobc@antix1:~/.screenlayout $ cat ./default.sh #!/bin/sh xrandr --output HDMI1 --off --output LVDS1 --primary --mode 1366x768 --pos 0x0 --rotate normal --scale 1.5x1.5 --output DP1 --off --output VGA1 --off bobc@antix1:~/.screenlayout $ ./default.sh bobc@antix1:~/.screenlayout $ desktop-session -r- This reply was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by BobC.
Thank you Dave and thank you Bob, for this simple and effective sollution 🙂 looks great now
sybok
Wow, I did not know about the scale; still learning new things.
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