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Remote Desktop to Windows 10 will not scale font size

I am attempting to remote desktop into Windows 10. I have adjusted the display size on the actual PC to scale fonts and such to 125%, which is what I had previously set on my WIndows Server 2012R2 ...
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Separate custom scaling levels for each display in Windows 10

I want to set a different custom scaling level for each of my 2 monitors. The "recommended" scaling for my laptop display is 150%, while 100% scaling is recommended for my external monitor. ...
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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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Why do apps blur out when not focused on windows?

I am having scaling issues in windows 10. The applications blur out frequently. This is not happening in all of the apps though, examples for problematic apps: Skype, Slack, Visual Studio Code. My ...
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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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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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Custom scale printing in Adobe Acrobat

I have Acrobat X Pro and read Choose File > Print. Click Size, and choose one of the following options: Fit Scales small pages up and large pages down to fit the paper. Shrink Oversize Pages ...
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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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Changing Display Resolution of Surface Pro 3 when Docked/Undocked

I recently got a Surface Pro 3 for work. I have it connected with two external monitors and and using the Surface in the dock as a third monitor. The monitors are set for 1920x1080 and text is ...
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High DPI display at quarter native resolution

I have a high-DPI display (13" 3200x1800) and figured that if I set it at 1600x900 (exactly 1/4 native - 1/2 width and 1/2 height) then each pixel outputted should be represented by a 2x2 block of ...
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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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How to change screen's DPI scaling automatically when switching to multi-monitor setup?

I have a 14" 1920×1080 laptop and a 24" 1920×1200 screen. The pixel density difference is huge. When I'm using the large screen as a main one and laptop as an additional screen, I'd like ...
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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 gsettings get org.gnome.desktop.interface ...
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How to change website scale? Live Preview extention for Visual Studio Code

I use Live Preview extention for Visual Studio Code (Windows). Is there any way to change or reduce scale of website preview? I tried using Ctrl + Plus/Minus - it affects the whole Visual Studio Code ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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What are the definitive rules for Windows 8 Screen Scaling

I have a laptop + external screen multi-mon setup running windows 8. The laptop has a 15.4 Inch 1920*1080 Screen (Smaller Physical / Higher Pixel Density) The Monitor has a 22 Inch 1680*1050 Screen (...
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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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Mouse cursor much larger on secondary displays

I have a Windows 10 laptop with a high resolution (3840x2160), high DPI built in display. I have two "standard" external 1920x1080 monitors attached to the laptop to use for extended desktop. One of ...
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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. intel panel nvidia panel How can I ...
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Set Scaling of individual applications in Windows

I occurs to be that I want any app I'm not looking at to be scaled down (to say 100%), but the one in focus to be scaled up (to 200%). This would both make maximal use of my hi-res laptop screen for ...
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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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How do I scale default app size smaller than "Default" in Windows 8.1?

I'm on a 1920x1080 pixel, 15.1" laptop running Windows 8.1. Some of my apps (Eclipse, SourceTree, pgAdmin, Chrome) render larger than I would like, fitting far less content than on Windows 7. I can "...
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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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Citrix Receiver 4k DPI scaling issue

I've set my Windows 10 scaling to 150% on my 2160p display, but Citrix Receiver recognizes a 100% scaling with a 1440p resolution. How can I have the 2160p and 150% scaling even over Citrix?
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Overriding High DPI Scaling from the Command Line

I am compiling and building an OpenCV app on Windows 10, which shows some images. I want to overrride the high DPI scaling behavior and set it to "Application". I can do this fine on the .exe file ...
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Is it possible to scale specific apps on Windows 10?

We know that with the Windows 10 feature Display Scaling is possible to change the size of text, apps and icons. Once you set a value, this is applied to ALL texts, apps and icons. I just want to set ...
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RemoteApp doesn't apply correct scaling initially

I have a large app that we are delaying supporting dynamic DPI for. Currently, when we launch our app via RemoteApp (RDP to our Windows Server 2016 server) on a high DPI screen, the text and controls ...
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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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Force full-screen scaling on a Radeon-powered laptop

I've got a Packard Bell laptop with a Radeon 5650 card. The desktop resolution is 1600x900. Windows 7 SP1 x64. I like older games. They often have resolutions like 800x600 or 640x480. When I run that,...
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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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Windows 8 on MBPr won't scale full screen games

I run Windows 8 via Bootcamp on a 15" Macbook Pro Retina (with Nvidia GT750M). When I open any game that runs full screen, the game will typically force itself to use native resolution (2880x1800) or ...
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How can I scale an overlay within an ffmpeg filtercomplex?

I would like to apply a PNG overlay (watermark) to an arbitrary video file using ffmpeg. I would like the video to stay its original size (which I don't know ahead of time), and the PNG to be scaled ...
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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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Monitors with different pixel sizes

I have several monitors with different pixel sizes (that is, size of individual pixels; not resolution). This means that when I put them next to each other and move the mouse between them, it's not ...
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Scaling Spotify client on Linux HiDPI display

On my Linux Mint 20 Cinnamon I just installed Spotify like this: curl -sS https://download.spotify.com/debian/pubkey_0D811D58.gpg | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb http://repository.spotify.com ...
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Disable custom scaling factor

Each time I restart my Windows 10 I have applied custom scaling factor. In order to get scaling I need I should always press Turn off custom scaling and sign out. How to disable custom custom scaling ...
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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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Is it possible to change display scaling via command line?

I've got a laptop with a 2560 x 1440 display, connected to 2 external 1080p monitors. The scaling is fine normally, with the native monitor at 125% and the 1080p monitors at 100%, but when I undock ...
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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 ...