Re: Screen scaling, which is the best way (or are they all the same)?
On 2025-08-20, Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> wrote:
>
> There seem to be at least two places where I can adjust things (I'm
> running xfce4 on Debian 12 at present):-
>
> Settings->Appearance->Fonts has 'DPI', if I increase this everything
> gets bigger.
>
> Settings->Display has 'Scale', if I set this to (say) 0.8 everything
> gets bigger.
>
> I can see these work slightly differently but what I'd really like to
> know is which provides the better/sharper result. Is there any
> difference and/or are there other better ways to achieve what I want?
>
If you can't tell the difference, what difference does it make?
'xrandr' is the tool people usually talk about for this sort of thing
(3840×2160).
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