how to reduce the window scale ?

[sean darcy]

On 4/30/20 10:38 AM, Olivier Fourdan wrote:
> Hey
> 
> On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 at 16:21, sean darcy <seandarcy2 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:seandarcy2 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I've just installed Fedora 31 xfce on a new lenovo laptop. xfwm4-4.14.1.
> 
>     xrandr
>     Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1366 x 768, maximum 16384 x 16384
>     eDP connected primary 1366x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y
>     axis) 344mm x 194mm
>          1366x768      60.06*+
> 
>     DPI is set to 96.
> 
>     Fonts are monospace 10.
> 
>     Appearance->Windows Scaling->1x(no scaling)
> 
>     The window text and icons are too big. Hard to describe. I've
>     attached a
>     screenshot, but not sure it will work with the mailing list.
> 
>     If I do Windows Scaling 2x , I obviously get a worse effect. Want I
>     want
>     is Windows Scaling 0.75x !
> 
>        In my last laptop xfce provided much more compact windows.
> 
> 
> Go to "settings" → "window manager" and select "Default-hdpi" or even 
> just "Default" (or some other smaller themes)
> 
> Cheers
> Olivier
> 
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Thanks for the quick response. Choosing a different theme did reduce the 
window panels.

But the windows themselves are still too big. For instance, the login 
window is almost 50% of the screen.

sean