On 01/10/2018 11:45 AM, Scott Robbins wrote:> On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 09:25:04AM -0600, Sean Smith wrote: >> I have no idea how.? All I can find is the Hi-DPi settings in Gnome-Tweak >> but, of course, it only lets? me choose to scale from "1" to "2" which >> makes things way too big. >> > It's better to not top post if possible. :) > > There is an xrandr scale command as well. If for example, your output is > eDP1 then > xrandr --output eDP1 --scale .8x.8 > > The smaller the scaling, the larger the size, so I think that .5x.5 wou > be what the tweak tool is offering.Thanks for the help. I've got it working now.? What I ended up doing was adding video=1600x900 to my boot / kernel command line to test and then appended it in my grub menu. I screwed around with font scaling with Gnome Tweak and also in about:config of Firefox and Thunderbird but there was always something that looked funny and some webpages didn't come out right. setting my resolution to 1600x900 is a cheesy, yet effective, way to do get what I need. ...Now if I can just get my touchpad to FRICK'N disable while typing. Sean,
Sean Smith wrote: <snip>> setting my resolution to 1600x900 is a cheesy, yet effective, way to do > get what I need. > > ...Now if I can just get my touchpad to FRICK'N disable while typing. >If/when you do, *PLEASE* post the solution. If you're a manager, or gamer, I guess touchpads are great. If you're *typing*, they're dreadful, that's where the ball of my thumb goes. mark
On 01/11/2018 12:34 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Sean Smith wrote: > <snip> >> setting my resolution to 1600x900 is a cheesy, yet effective, way to do >> get what I need. >> >> ...Now if I can just get my touchpad to FRICK'N disable while typing. >> > If/when you do, *PLEASE* post the solution. If you're a manager, or gamer, > I guess touchpads are great. If you're *typing*, they're dreadful, that's > where the ball of my thumb goes. > > mark >Okay, got the "disable touchpad while typing" thingy working. Here's what I did: Install dconf-editor if you haven't already. Then, from a console (not as su), run: dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/peripherals/touchpad/disable-while-typing true This seems to have worked for me. Good luck, -- Sean ||
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 01:34:00PM -0500, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:> Sean Smith wrote: > <snip> > > setting my resolution to 1600x900 is a cheesy, yet effective, way to do > > get what I need. > > > > ...Now if I can just get my touchpad to FRICK'N disable while typing. > > > If/when you do, *PLEASE* post the solution. If you're a manager, or gamer,You can install xorg-x11-drv-synaptics which includes syndaemon. Then you can type syndaemon -d which usually is sufficient. There are more specific ways to use it. ftp://www.x.org/pub/X11R7.5/doc/man/man1/syndaemon.1.html -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6