Everything is tiny - change DPI? (not only text)

[nizzon]

Hi.

I have been planning to installing Mint on my main laptop for over a year now.
Yesterday I made the move.

My laptop has a 15" with 1920x1200 as native resolution.
Everything in the user interface is so tiny my eyes hurt.

To my disappointment I cant find a way to change the DPI for anything but some of the ui-text. I want bigger icons/menues.
If i change resolution everything gets blurry and ugly so thats not an option.

I have been googling this for a few hours now and all can find is the option to change text-dpi.
Is there no way to change at least the icon-dpi?

[kentw]

Hallo , maybe you already have looked at : Controlcenter - category Hardware - Monitors and see if you can change to desired resolution .

Kent

[JohnnyC35]

hey, I had the exact same issue I had to edit xorg's dpi to make everything legiable.
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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Section "Monitor"
        Identifier     "Monitor0"
        VendorName     "Unknown"
        ModelName      "SAMSUNG"
        HorizSync       26.0 - 68.0
        VertRefresh     23.0 - 61.0
        Option         "UsedidDPI" "false"
        Option         "DPMS"
        Option         "DPI" "110 x 110"
EndSection

You may need to fiddle with the 110x110 to suit you. Hope that helps.

[proxima_centauri]

Go to Appearance Preferences, navigate to the Font tab. Underneath the Rendering options, there is a "Details..." button lower right, click and change the value for Resolution, dots per inch.

[nizzon]

JohnnyC35: Awesome! I will look into that!


Kentw: Like I said, I already have the desired resolution.
proxima_centaurl: Like I said, already did that, bigger text here and there is not enough.

[nizzon]

hey, I had the exact same issue I had to edit xorg's dpi to make everything legiable.
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf

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Section "Monitor"
        Identifier     "Monitor0"
        VendorName     "Unknown"
        ModelName      "SAMSUNG"
        HorizSync       26.0 - 68.0
        VertRefresh     23.0 - 61.0
        Option         "UsedidDPI" "false"
        Option         "DPMS"
        Option         "DPI" "110 x 110"
EndSection

You may need to fiddle with the 110x110 to suit you. Hope that helps.

That does'nt change anything for me, even after restarting the xorg-server.
I have tried numerous xorg-settings.
Any ideas?

[proxima_centauri]

You can adjust icon size in Nautilus file manager, by going to Edit -> Preferences. Change the default zoom level to a higher percentage. You can also expand the size of the panel to make those icons larger (right-click panel, preferences, change the size).

As far as I know, the xorg.conf DPI settings are the same as Appearance Preferences method, so you're wasting your time.

[nizzon]

Ok.
I guess I give up, really annoying having different sizes in different parts of the UI.

Another thing...
I see you have same gfx-card as I have.
I have really sluggish compiz-performance when moving windows.
Do you know a solution for that?

[proxima_centauri]

Have you installed the proprietary drivers? If not, do so through Hardware Drivers in the menu under Administration.

If that is done, check NVIDIA X Server Settings and make sure Powermizer settings are set to Maximum Performance.

I have fusion-icon installed which gives a notification area icon for Compiz. I have Indirect Rendering and Loose Binding checked to increase performance. You can alternatively test this by starting compiz like so in terminal

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compiz --replace --indirect-rendering --loose-binding