Questions tagged [scaling]
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Web browsers window sizes are smaller than my Windows 10 display resolution
I have Windows 10 and 4 web browsers installed.
Browsers Zoom set to 100%, OS Scale and Layout 100% too, and LogPixels Key in Regedit is 60 Hexadecimal (96 Decimal).
Whatever is my display resolution (...
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Excel automatic reduced print size - all print size change to small, all positions are wrong
My company have one file shared for users, it provided by another company and set the print area NOT allow to change (password protected)
User A, B using same configuration computer, same OS and ...
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Could a display or monitor use subpixel rendering when used at a higher or lower resolution than its native one?
My neighbor insists that a $75 22" (as of 2024) HDMI display that is advertised as 1080p is 4K because his Xbox asks to enable 4K gaming when he uses it. It probably just accepts a higher ...
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All Chrome-based browsers have fractional pixel size on my system
I'm using an Ubuntu-based OS with XOrg as the display server. I don't have system-wide scaling enabled, and if I open this test in Firefox, it shows that the displayPixelRatio is 1. However, if I open ...
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Jagged/bad quality resolution after attaching second monitor
I have a 2560 x 1440, 144 Hz monitor and a 3840 x 2160, 144 Hz monitor. I use a Geforce RTX 4070 TI.
The monitor with the lower resolution used to provide good quality when it was combined with a full ...
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How to select text scale of > 175% on a 3840 x 1100 secondary monitor?
I have a Windows 10 Version 22H2 (build 19045.3324) laptop with 3 monitors:
The primary builtin monitor, 3840 x 2162, 16.5"
A secondary builtin ScreenPad monitor, 3840 x 1100, 14"
An ...
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Where is resizing done when non native resolution is used on LCD screens - in the drivers or by the monitor itself?
Where is done image resizing/upscaling when a non native resolution is used on a LCD/IPS/OLED, any fixed resolution screen? Is it done by the OS, by its drivers, or by the monitor itself?
Let's say my ...
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Windows 11 Single (Main Laptop Monitor) custom scaling while other monitors scaling shouldn't change
I am using a laptop in a multi-monitor setup and also on the go. While the default scaling options are somewhat fine for my laptop monitor, I find 125% scaling to be too small and 150% to be too big ...
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Windows 10 Scaling Issue with Java 11 Application
We have recently upgraded an application which has been using Java 8 but was upgraded to Java 11 during the process.
Now we are faced with the following problem:
Users are working on a HiDPI Laptop (...
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Blurry distorted text and icons
So my text and icons look blurry, distorted and It also looks like small top portion of letters are being cut off by like 1 pixel. But the thing is that 20% of right side of the screen seem normal, ...
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Fractional display scaling: get and set in terminal
How do I get current fractional scaling value via terminal?
E.g. with GUI set to 125%:
gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface scaling-factor returns 0
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Tiny fonts on a Windows Server 2016 Standard Chrome file open dialog
I run an instance of Windows Server 2016 Standard inside a Hyper-V VM. All scaling, fonts and resolution looks fine across all apps, with 1 exception: Google Chrome's file browser dialog: the ...
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Windows 11 having probems with windows on multiple monitors with different scaling
I've got two fullHD monitors connected to a 4k laptop, with 100% and 300% scaling. My problem is that when I try to pull a window from the 4k monitor to another the window won't scale back to 100% ...
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How to reduce Win 10 display scale of everything to 50% or less?
everyone! Hey, the mobo on my main Win 10 desktop computer is broke and I can't afford to replace it yet. So I'm trying to use my Toshiba Satellite laptop running 64-bit Windows 10 Pro (an older ...
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Too big UI of few programs, and to big webpages
In my Microsoft Edge, and Firefox program UI are too big, and also contents of webpages are too big. I have set 100% dpi, no custom scaling. This issue appear only in Firefox and Edge. How can I fix ...
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When I access a server that has multiple DNS IP addresses, which one do I use?
Right now if I run host superuser.com, I get:
superuser.com has address 151.101.193.69
superuser.com has address 151.101.1.69
superuser.com has address 151.101.65.69
superuser.com has address 151.101....
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Awfully large screenshots; is there anything to do about this?
My new laptop has half-4K display. In order to look "usable" Windows 11 suggests 300% scaling on all elements. Most UI elements looks just fine, but Snipping Tool is not able to recognize ...
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What variant of Spline algorithm is used in "spline" parameter from "scale" filter?
FFmpeg has two filters to scale the video: scale and zscale - zscale has spline16 and spline36 parameters (they represent Spline16 and Spline36 variants of the algorithm), scale has spline parameter.
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Automatically adjust scaling of a display when a second monitor is plugged in [Windows 10]
I currently have a work laptop that I would like to have the scaling set to 125% when it is plugged into another monitor/docked, and set to 100% when it is not plugged in. Does anyone know of any ways ...
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Only Maintain Display Scaling in Intel graphics control panel
I want to scale my display for 4:3, but in intel graphics control panel i have only Maintain Display Scaling and in Nvidia control panel i dont have display tab.
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How to disable GPU scaling on Windows when drivers provide no such option
Alternative questions:
Disabling screen stretch under lower resolutions on Windows.
Force matching screen resolution to display pixels 1:1.
Full story: quite often (especially for older apps) ...
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ffmpeg scaling with precise edges?
i'd like to extract thumbnails from videos. the problem i'm running into is that the boundaries of the reduced images aren't clear due to edge effects in the scaling algorithm. here is a simple mire ...
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Custom scaling laptop for CRT TV
I have searched online but has not found a solution.
I have a CRT tv with aspect ratio 4:3. I need to connect my laptop to the TV with HDMI to AV adapter. It works fine but I am having problems with ...
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What could be the reason for difference in clarity on two different displays with approximately same DPI?
I have two displays -
LG 22" monitor (22MP68VQ) which has a FullHD resolution (1920x1080) with DPI = 100. Contents are displayed without scaling.
Lenovo X1 carbon 6th gen laptop screen (14")...
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RDP: Reset display scaling setting?
I encountered a problem with a Windows 10 Enterprise system which is executing local GUI based programs executed on a logged-in local user account. This local user-profile is accessed from multiple ...
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Downscaling VP9 from 4K to 1080p without re-compression
I have a video file that is a 4K upscale of a 1080p video in VP9 (upscaled to 4K to force Youtube to use higher bitrate for the video).
I want to downscale the 4K video file to 1080p while (...
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Restore CPU Scaling after Resume from Sleep
Starting from boot, my computer responds to system load normally, with Windows 10 able to scale the processor speed higher or lower.
But, after resuming operation from Sleep, the computer seems to ...
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Windows 10 make text bigger problems with office apps
If I go on Windows 10 to Settings -> Display -> Make Text Bigger and drag the slider to increase text to 110% my office apps appear with fuzzy text. I'm not scaling though, but just making the ...
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Is there a way to limit display resolution options in Windows 10?
I'm trying to find out if it is possible to restrict or edit the list of possible resolutions offered in the Windows 10 Display Settings.
I would want to make sure that if the user changes the ...
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Is there any way to account for higher DPI scaling in case of Windows internal utilities
Because of high resolution of my displays I have to turn to using higher DPI scaling (125% and 150%). Windows 10 is smart enough to take it into account when rendering most of the program windows, so ...
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