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Move mouse proportionally between different resolution (and DPI) displays
Perhaps LittleBigMouse could help you out? It's an alpha application, but it seems to be focusing on the issue you're having.
DPI Aware mouse move across screens
Allows accurate mouse screen ...
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Does Windows know physical size of external monitor?
Yes, it does know
Monitors are sending EDID data which contains some information about the display, including its physical dimensions. Here's an example from my older question/answer:
Note the ...
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How do I know the dpi of my laptop screen
1366 x 768 pixels is 1567 pixels diagonally (Pythagorean theorem, √(13662+7682)=1567; and you thought you would never use that).
If the screen measures 15.6" diagonally, 1567 pixels / 15.6" is ...
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How to adjust UI scaling for Chrome?
With the Chrome 54 update they made it so Chrome can detect the DPI setting on your computer so that the web browser will be scaled accordingly.
Google Chrome didn’t used to pay attention to your ...
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How to enlarge Gimp UI font and icon size for HDPI screen?
Change icon size
Preferences
Interface
Icon Theme
Change: guess Icon size from resolution
Into: custom Icon Size
Drag slider
Change font size
Close Gimp
Open the file gtkrc of your specific ...
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Finding Image resolution in PDF file?
slhck's answer and scruss' comment deserve to be updated : pdfimages now (at least since version 0.26.5) explicitely lists x-ppi and y-ppi. Here is an sample output :
$ pdfimages -list example.pdf
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Is changing DPI of LED harmful?
Increasing your DPI makes your display items look smaller. I believe its entirely a software setting and shouldn't damage anything.
Changing your resolution results in terrible display quality on ...
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Does Windows know physical size of external monitor?
Windows works in logical units (inches). Its simply dpi divided into monitor's resolution. A logical inch is bigger on a bigger display.
This tells you what windows knows. Type in a command prompt.
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Is it possible to change display scaling via command line?
There's a command line app called SetDPI
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Changing the DPI in a JPEG without re-encoding? with ImageMagick or something else
You can do this with exiftool.
You command would be:
exiftool -XResolution=# -YResolution=# FileOrDir
Change the hashmark to the new DPI number. This command will make backups of each file, which you ...
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Is it possible to change display scaling via command line?
Below is a batch script that will emulate the keyboard strokes to manipulate the GUI to adjust the Scale and layout options and Change the size or text, apps, and other items when it runs. This uses ...
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How to enlarge Gimp UI font and icon size for HDPI screen?
Under Bodhi Linux a better solution for me is similar to Bouke Versteegh's except leave.
GimpDock::font-scale = 0.8333
alone. Instead, uncomment
# font_name = "sans 10"
and change it to
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Set DPI of individual applications in Windows
Here's a technique that may indirectly address your need. In Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 there is a possibility to enable dpi scaling for old applications written before high-resolution screens ...
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How do I know the dpi of my laptop screen
Assuming you are using Windows 7:
Go to Control Panel > Appearance and Personalization > Display
In the left(blue) column, click Set custom text size(DPI)
A window titled Custom DPI Scaling will pop ...
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Move mouse proportionally between different resolution (and DPI) displays
There's new solution available in case anyone will find it useful - Cursr, allows to customise mouse transition between all screens
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How to fix Windows 10 blurry fonts in applications?
Here is how I solved it the simplest way. Simply set whatever DPI Windows is recommending as a custom DPI. That is, if Windows is recommending 125%, set a custom DPI of 125% and log out and log back ...
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How to take screenshot at "100% size" on a high-DPI with scaling enabled?
I would also have liked a good solution for this problem, but I don't believe that
one exists. I will explain below why I think so.
When one specifies 125% scaling for Windows, this means that ...
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Does Windows know physical size of external monitor?
Often, but not always.
At work we have an application that needs to know the physical sizes of monitors in order to display maps with the correct scale. We request the EDID information from Windows ...
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Move mouse proportionally between different resolution (and DPI) displays
So, I had the same problem.
TLDR; Due to lack of open source apps, (LittleBigMouse didn't work, DisplayFusion isn't free), I ended up writing a small application that does the job.
Find it here: ...
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Move mouse proportionally between different resolution (and DPI) displays
https://www.displayfusion.com/ has a feature that will mostly resolve this; it's very simplistic implementation. I have version 9.3 - not sure when it was added. NOTE: DisplayFusion is not free.
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How do I know the dpi of my laptop screen
Try yourself: DPI Calculator
Formula:
PPI = √(pixels_horizontal^2 + pixels_vertical^2) / inches_diagonal
PPI = √(13662 + 7682) / 15.6 = 100.45
Therefore, 100.45 dpi
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Virtualbox guests are upsampled & blurry due to DPI scaling from Windows Host, and disabling it has no affect
Had the same problem with a windows 10 host and an ubuntu guest where suddenly all was a bit pixelated and blurry.
Overriding DPI sampling when right clicking on the exe file and changing the ...
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Is changing DPI of LED harmful?
Some of the discussion seems to reflect semantic differences. Just to avoid confusion in terminology, on LED and other flat panel displays, the pixels are fixed, manufactured in a specific physical ...
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Reduce resolution,size,dpi,number of pixels in PDF images
Sejda's Compress PDF tool optimises the images in your PDF document, changing their DPI based on your selection.
https://www.sejda.com/compress-pdf
There's also a desktop app available.
I'm one of ...
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Does Windows know physical size of external monitor?
According to industry EDID specs, monitors are supposed to supply quite a bit of information to the OS/video driver about its capabilities. That includes pixel resolutions available, clock frequencies,...
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Set DPI of individual applications in Windows
SOLUTION FOR WINDOWS 10 in high resolution PCs.
Right click on the software icon/link > properties > tab "compatibility"> change high DPI setting > mark the checkbox "override high DPI scaling ...
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How to fix Windows 10 blurry fonts in applications?
I've managed to get sharp fonts in CMD, Device Manager, etc at once using standard Windows settings UI (i.e., without changing the compatibility settings or using the auto-start registry script).
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Finding Image resolution in PDF file?
For some reason, the latest version of pdfimages that I can upgrade in my CentOS is version 3.04.
So, I don't have the -list option as stated by previous answers. However, the test image created ...
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Configure different DPI per monitor in Windows 10
Open the settings app by doing a rightclick on desktop and select Display settings
Here select each Monitor and in the dropbown list select your DPi scaling (100 = 96 dpi). This value can be changed ...
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How to change the DPI value for screenshots?
Well, based on the comments, it looks like it can't be done with just some settings in Windows or with older Versions of MSOffice or LibreOffice etc. Even with MSOffice2016, only a few predefined DPI ...
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