xrandr for Windows

[gczark]

xrandr is a command line tool to manage your monitors (which is present in Ubuntu). The usual thing I do with xrandr is to shrink my entire screen to create more desktop space.

I have already read why it is impossible to implement this on Windows. Shrinking the monitor will cause pixels not to render properly, by saying that, this feature request will be substantially closed.

I'm looking at the brighter side. Who knows, maybe at a certain degree of scaling, ClearType, anti-aliasing or other tweaks may fix those issues. (I have done this with Ubuntu, and my screen configuration is still manageable).

[gczark]

I found out that desktop environments have different behavior with xrandr. I exactly work with Gnome shell.

[crutkas]

@gczark, is your primary ask here to resize to a DPI under 100%?

[gczark]

Somehow, yes, like forcing below 100%, but with that, there will be too much work to do.

For I know RandR is more of screen simulation (I'm not sure with this). Simulating the root screen makes limitless possibility of resizing, rotating, flipping, panning, etc., effortlessly in creating multiple screen set-ups. Relatively it is more flexible, than changing dpi's.

[gczark]

In Windows, I currently found out that Microsoft Edge like all other Chromium based browsers support forced scaling.

This is shot from a 1366x768 with /force-device-scale-factor=0.75, scaling below 100% is not bad at all.