Change DPI on HiDPI laptop with two external monitors
Try running the following command:
xrandr --output eDP1 --auto --output DP1 --auto --scale 2x2 --right-of eDP1 --output DP2 --auto --scale 2x2 --right-of DP1
This should make the HD monitors look smaller. You can also use this in conjunction with the following:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor 2
After running both of these commands, the Surface Pro 3 should look larger, but the external monitors should look the same size as they did before. Try adjusting the values to 1.5 if the Surface's display looks too 'big'.
Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI
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CJ Scholten
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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CJ Scholten almost 2 years
I have a Surface Pro 3 laptop (running Ubuntu Gnome) with two external monitors.
The laptop's screen has a resolution of 2160x1440, and the two monitors are 1920x1080.
The Surface Pro (eDP1
) is on the left, and the two other monitors (DP1
&DP2
) are on the right, with the central monitor being the primary monitor.This causes everything on the Surface Pro display to be extremely small, so I want to change the DPI of this display to make everything a bit bigger.
However, I have no idea how to do that. I've tried using
xrandr
, but I can't get it to work.
Can anyone help?Cheers, CJ
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Trevor Rudolph almost 8 yearswhat do we do if we need it on the left side?