**Help Required**
I have changed my very old and slow desktop to #LinuxMint a few weeks ago, but still I am not able to set the system to an acceptable screen resolution. Either the desktop, icons and pages are too large or too small. I cannot find a happy medium. This is after watching many online tutorials. If anyone has suggestions, I would be most grateful to read them.
@bibliolater What hardware do you have?
@gabosh Think you for replying. My monitor is a Lenovo ThinkVision, I cannot get anymore information as the commands that I use in the terminal such as _hwinfo --monitor --short_ do not work.
@bibliolater what ist your graphic-card?
Maybe the command lspci helps if you are unsure.
@gabosh I do not think it is the graphics card. Would you like to see the readout for that command?
@bibliolater yes, please
@bibliolater In the settings screen where you set screen resolution, there should be a scaling option, and (I think under an advanced settings tab) there should be a checkbox to enable non-integer scaling. Enable that and then tweak the scaling as you wish.
I'm away from my Linux PC at the moment so no screenshots, sorry.
@bibliolater Try this: keep the scaling at 100% (this is where you set the screen resolution - "Display". And also, make sure your monitor is at the highest resolution available).
Instead, go to "Accessibility" and check >Large Text. If you find that still too big or small, you can go to "Font Selection" and there will be >Scaling Factor which if you've set large text like above, defaults to 1.2. You can increase or decrease this.
@not3ottersinacoat Thank you for your assistance, I really appreciate it. A lot of the options are not available to me as I am running a very old desktop on the XFCE version of Linux Mint.
@bibliolater oh then I believe with XFCE under Appearance (?) there's a setting for font dpi. I believe the default is 96, maybe try 120?
@not3ottersinacoat Thank you that helped.
@not3ottersinacoat I wanted to thank you once again for your advice which really helped me a great deal. I had been struggling with this situation for a number of weeks.
@bibliolater I'm just glad I could help :)
@bibliolater Also, knowing XFCE I believe the main panel is probably still too small, and the font for the clock too. You can right click to get to the panel settings and increase the row size, and for the clock itself go to panel items and you can increase the clock's font size separately.
@not3ottersinacoat I was just dealing with this, you must be a mind reader!
@bibliolater No, I just also always need to make everything bigger, lol. My 14" laptop monitor is 1920x1080, and I like it for it's color (I specifically bought it and replaced the old monitor for that reason) but it would actually be better or at least more convenient to set things up if it were 1366x768.
@bibliolater I don't have much experience with Mint - I used to be a long time Xubuntu user until I switched to Debian with XFCE.
Setting desktop preferences in XFCE is straightforward. It also has very acceptable performance on my Lenovo T510 (a 15 years old machine ;-) ).