Linux Mint XFCE 21 (Latest) screen resolution, text size, icon size, display - broken!
Hello.
Hope you are doing well, and thank you in advance for reading this. Please feel free to skip ahead to the PROBLEMS or TRIED FIXES sections if that helps save your time. I am using Linux Mint XFCE 21 (Latest version) on an ASUS Vivobook Laptop and running 2 External Monitors (using VGA Splitter) as Secondary Display. Backstory: The first time I had installed Linux Mint XFCE 20, it had some screen resolution, text size, icon size, button size, title bar and panel sizes, and display issues. I had gone over this forum and resolved to solve them. Today I changed my old VGA cable and plugged in VGA Extender connected by Ethernet Cable to my External Monitor. Then the problems started happening - 1. The screen resolution has been completely broken with the VGA Extender and Ethernet Cable connecting to External Monitor 2. The text size, icon size, button size, title bar and panel sizes were all too small. 3. The display looks broken - as in stretched or breaking. Its a bit hard to explain, hence I am providing images shortly. I went over this forum again and tried to fix it. I tried several suggestions - changing font size options, scaling options, and resolution options. But none of them were working. Then I restarted my PC, and all the fonts became huge! - I think Linux Mint XFCE was NOT rendering the changes until restart, and I thought it was not working, so set large values to test it. And after restart, everything went huge and now I cant even use my PC (cant navigate around PC or do anything - all the windows and buttons and options get cut off and flow out of screen due to their size!) I first used Timeshift to go back to a previous version where things were working. But it seems Linux Mint XFCE kept track of the customization to display settings (font size, etc) and there was no change (everything was still huge). I somehow managed to press ALT+SPACE and used the keyboard to select move and tried moving the windows and opening terminal. From there I upgraded Linux Mint XFCE from 20 to 21 and installed all the latest updates (hoping it would undo the mistake). The upgrade was successful, but the broken settings which I had mistakenly saved were still in action (they were not erased by the upgrade). I tried tweaking the settings and restarting every now and then, and managed to resolve a lot of the problems. But some of them are still remaining and I am having a hard time fixing them. Some of the problems remaining: 1, Screen resolution is still broken / looks weird : https://pasteboard.co/5pAuIg44jzgE.png 2. The Panel (Task bar) icon sizes are not consistent : Some are too large, some are too small https://pasteboard.co/fpjZdsyxKkQ7.png 3. The Start Menu Icons are huge: https://pasteboard.co/ZrgAmsYcWyHL.png 4. The icons are huge globally: https://pasteboard.co/PNwlXldC0YUI.png 5. All the panels are of broken sizes (either too large or too small): https://pasteboard.co/cijVLeZVkUhR.png 6. The Title Bar, Title Bar Text and Title Bar Buttons - size is also not consistent (huge in some places, small in some): https://pasteboard.co/DeyE4tdXZwGf.png https://pasteboard.co/5EmbOhe4Wp3T.png 7. All Windows/Apps are opening in disproportionate / huge sizes - they are going out of the screen due to being so huge: https://pasteboard.co/spfMKvZCI33Y.png 8. The notifications are also huge - the notification icon is huge, the text is tiny. 9. The Desktop Icons and Texts are tiny: https://pasteboard.co/6ywthpdiSNRn.png Some of the things I have tried tweaking: 1. Changing Size in Desktop > Right Click > Desktop Settings > Icons - https://pasteboard.co/efl9bo53YDmV.png 2. Changing the Resolution in Start > Display > General - https://pasteboard.co/756w7xWqdF4X.png 3, Changing the Font Size in Start > Window Manager > Style - https://pasteboard.co/LabdD4RVpcQa.png 4. Changing the Font Size and Custom DPI Settings in Start > Appearance > Fonts - https://pasteboard.co/OCdehBPeiCbm.png 5. Changing Row Size in Settings > Panel > Display - https://pasteboard.co/fIWz7dIJAbth.png 6. Changing Size and DPI Settings in Start > KDE System Settings - https://pasteboard.co/gtGVObjDLaU1.png I have been trying all day to fix these issues, but have not been able to. Please guide me how I can fix these. Your time and effort is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance. Waiting eagerly for any solution or suggestion. P.s. I am also adding the output of the following command Code:
inxi -Fxxxz Output: Code:
scarlet@Scarlet:/media/scarlet$ inxi -Fxxxz |
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