I’m using the latest stable version of Fedora 43 Workstation. I’ve connected a second LG monitor to my laptop, but the size of windows, widgets, and all elements on the second monitor is much larger than on my first monitor.
I went into the settings to set the scale of my second monitor to 70 percent (something I used to do on other desktops), but to my surprise, I found that GNOME does not support scales lower than 100!
I looked around and it is possible, but you need to edit a file. See this reply on another forum: GNOME 49 + Wayland: single monitor scaling less than 1.0 (100%) - is it possible? - #11 by jake99 - Gnome - EndeavourOS
Hi..
My second monitor, with a resolution of 1440 by 900, is located to the left of my main monitor.
I visited the site and I read the suggested topic., and the monitors.xml file looked like this.
<monitors version="2">
<configuration>
<layoutmode>logical</layoutmode>
<logicalmonitor>
<x>1440</x>
<y>0</y>
<scale>1</scale>
<primary>yes</primary>
<monitor>
<monitorspec>
<connector>eDP-1</connector>
<vendor>AUO</vendor>
<product>0x2992</product>
<serial>0x00000000</serial>
</monitorspec>
<mode>
<width>1920</width>
<height>1080</height>
<rate>144.149</rate>
</mode>
</monitor>
</logicalmonitor>
<logicalmonitor>
<x>0</x>
<y>0</y>
<scale>1</scale>
<monitor>
<monitorspec>
<connector>HDMI-1</connector>
<vendor>GSM</vendor>
<product>0x4b77</product>
<serial>0x000084ff</serial>
</monitorspec>
<mode>
<width>1440</width>
<height>900</height>
<rate>59.887</rate>
</mode>
</monitor>
</logicalmonitor>
</configuration>
</monitors>
As I understand it, I need to change <x> 1440 </x> to <x> 2057 </x> and set the scale to 0.7.
I did it and logged out. The scale of my second monitor apparently didn’t change, but the position of my second monitor shifted from left to right.