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Im on a Dell G5 15 laptop with a 1660ti. I set my built in monitor to 125%, and that looks fine, but for some reason my second monitor seems to be zoomed in a bunch, even though that is still at 100% I kinda need my laptop screen zoomed in since its so small, any advice? Pop!_OS LTS, dont remember version, but says "most recent"

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[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

X11 is pretty janky regarding fractional scaling across multiple monitors. This should be improved when Pop!OS upgrades to CosmicDE which uses Wayland by fefault.

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I was going to suggest the opposite. I have nothing but problems with fractional scaling on Wayland, which is one of the main reasons I still run X. My main workstation has 3 monitors, and X's fractional scaling works smoothly.

With a lot of distros defaulting to Wayland, it'd be interesting to know which OP is running, and causing them grief. Does Pop!OS use X only for now?

[–] merthyr1831@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

Pop is X11 by default. I think you can get Wayland up since its just GNOME but idk