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Scaling on Thinkpad W540

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I'm running Ubuntu on a Lenovo W540 with a screen resolution of 2880x1629 (16:9). Everything in the interface is very small: text hardly legible, buttons minuscule etc. Is there any way to scale everything in the interface to make it easier to use at higher resolutions such as this one? Thank you very much.

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answered 1 Year ago enincroscope · Accepted Answer

The next LTS, 14.04 should bring a better support of such resolutions, aka high-DPI displays. Source OMG Ubuntu.

In regular Ubuntu with Unity some settings are Appearance -> Launcher icon size and Universal Access -> Text size. Those should help make things readable on a small high resolution screen.

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