Unlike the previous 16.04, in 18.04 I cannot see anywhere where to scale the interface.
As the latest thousand thread on "Interface scale on Ubuntu" I'm running on a 4k gaming laptop with Ubuntu as a virtual machine on the latest VMware Player.
I actually have seen just a few ways to deal with it by running by instance xrandr --output eDP1 --scale 2x2 or just enable the feature by gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']" but in my case nothing happened with both.
I backed up on the 16.04 but after days of search and I wonder if it's a 18.04 feature -or- something that cannot be changed on 18.04 when running on a VM (thought Unity lasted since Ubuntu 17 so that could be the reason why I can make it on 16.04?).
Any advice?
Main references:
Enable fractional scaling for Ubuntu 18.04
Enable fractional scale on GNOME
[EDIT]
Found something more about here and had given another try and by running the command to enable scale-monitor-framebuffer it seemed that something happened but once returned on the "Display" window the "scale" section under the dropdown of the resolution did not appear.
Also tryed by running sudo gsettings set org.gnome.mutter experimental-features "['scale-monitor-framebuffer']" with sudo privileges and returned me (process:7676): dconf-WARNING **: 12:32:40.213: failed to commit changes to dconf: Error spawning command line “dbus-launch --autolaunch=95a7941a7aa3477dacf239b1a2ba24a8 --binary-syntax --close-stderr”: Child process exited with code 1
xrandrcommand but still nothing happends. Do you suggest me anithing else? Could be something related to the fact that is running on a VM (on VMWare Player)? – Andrea Grimandi Jun 15 '18 at 07:59