Today I had to switch back to an old laptop while my new Tuxedo laptop gets repaired and I really noticed the lack of proper scaling going back to a 1080p 14 inch laptop. Date/time and icons are a bit hard to see by default like Gnome isn’t mean to be used on this form factor.
Now I remembered there was a font scaling setting in Tweaks that makes it a bit better but I was wondering why all icons are scaling so weirdly:
factor 1.0(default) with 100% display scale
factor 1.5 with 100% display scale
factor 1.8 with 100% display scale
factor 2 with 100% display scale
factor 1 with 200% display scale
The 200% display scaling seems to be the only setting that actually scales everything evenly but 100% is way too small and 200% is massively big. The screenshot doesn’t do it justice how big and cramped 200% makes it look, like it’s a device for the elderly. The calendar barely fits in the screen when I open it.
Was there already some way to use fractional scaling without using the font size scaling factor in Tweaks?
I’d love to try something else until I get my 16:10 1440p laptop back.
Thanks in advance!