Adjusting the screen DPI in Ubuntu
My laptop has a screen resolution of 1280×800 (it’s a 16:10 ratio widescreen). Sometimes it seems that the screen is a little crowded. Fortunately on most operating systems there’s a solution – adjust the screen DPI to get more pixels per inch.
The simplest way to do this in Gnome (the default window manager for Ubuntu) is to go into the following:
- System, Preferences, Appearance
- Click on the Fonts tab
- Click on the Details button in the bottom right
- Adjust the “Resolution” value.
The default value is 96 – I find that 84 is a good number for me, but even down at 70 the text is still very readable.
linux, ubuntu | GuruBob | 
August 7, 2011 10:04 pm | 
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