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Bug 654618 - gnome-display-properties does not show or set scaling mode
gnome-display-properties does not show or set scaling mode
Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Display
3.1.x
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-07-14 14:06 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2021-05-26 09:17 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.1/3.2


Description Pedro Villavicencio 2011-07-14 14:06:10 UTC 
this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/786058

"gnome-display-properties allows me to change my screen's resolution, but not the scaling mode (which is reset to full aspect on every boot). It would be a nice feature if gnome-display-properties could read the current mode and change it (and store it as the default, like it can store the screen resolution).

The current mode can be got with:

xrandr --props

eg for my LVDS1, it says "scaling mode: Full aspect".

It can be set to one of Center, Full, or "Full Aspect" with (eg):

xrandr --output LVDS1 --set "scaling mode" Full

(note that the capitals are important - full doesn't work)."

Thanks,
Comment 1 Phillip 2011-11-28 00:57:37 UTC 
I agree.  This would be really good to have.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2013-04-18 15:28:57 UTC 
I don't have any hardware that seems to support that, and I don't know what that does, or why it would be useful.
Comment 3 André Klapper 2014-12-15 17:59:15 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I don't have any hardware that seems to support that, and I don't know what
> that does, or why it would be useful.

Pedro: Can you answer this? ^
Comment 4 André Klapper 2021-05-26 09:17:08 UTC 
Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided. Please
feel free to report this to
  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/
if you can provide the information that was asked for in a previous comment and
if this still happens in a recent and supported version. Thanks!