Questions tagged [dpi]
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How to find and change the screen DPI?
I am trying to find and then change the screen DPI (dots per inch) setting in 12.04 and 12.10. However, I can't seem to find any app or config file that can do this. Is there any app or conf file for this?
Note that this is for 12.04+ so the…

Luis Alvarado
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Does Ubuntu support retina displays?
There was a discussion in summer that Ubuntu does not support retina displays - everything on the screen is too small. Even adjusting DPI does not help, since such an adjusting scales only fonts, bit not images.
Is Ubuntu 12.10 already optimized for…

Viktor
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Set font DPI (font scaling) in Xorg for light Window Managers like Fluxbox
When using WMs like Fluxbox there isn't support in the WMs to do font scaling. Font scaling should be set at the Xorg level, but in my experience using xrandr in .xinitrc or .xsession doesn't work in modern Ubuntu versions such as 16.04

happyskeptic
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How do I change the DPI settings in terminal?
I accidentally made my DPI settings really really large and now I can't change them back to a smaller setting because it's so large that it's not visible on my screen to fix it. Is there a way to correct DPI settings in the Command Line???
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