Ubuntu – Super high resolution but tiny fonts combined with “normal” resolution screen

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I've got a dell xps13 with an amazing resolution of 3200 x 1800.

At work, I like to use a dual setup with an external 22 inch screen attached to it (this serves as primary screen). I use Kubuntu (so KDE as desktop environment).

The problem is that I change the font dpi settings (this works great, in the fonts menu under system settings) in order to get readable (versus tiny) letters on my laptop screen. When I plug in the second screen, all fonts are huge, the laptop's fonts are normal.

Is there any way to combine the two and use different dpi (or even better, automatic) dpi settings per screen?

Best Answer

Since at least Kubuntu 16.04 this is pretty easy to solve: Go to System Settings -> Display, choose your Displays one by one and click on the Scale Display bar at the very bottom.

You can scale your Content (including the fonts) up to 3 times the original size in that menu. Kubuntu remembers the settings per display.

Note that you might need to log out and log in again to see the changes.

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