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For that honest answer I can give you an answer: Afaik xrandr / X can only set a global DPI, rest of monitors need to be scaled.
Wayland solves this if I remember correctly - though that requires an all Wayland system. Though I cannot give any guarantees as I only use one monitor. More than one and I get too distracted to get shit done. -
Draedus6871y@IntrusionCM Hmm I think I already did that . The global dpi should be the biggest dpi monitor ? Or the sum of all and then scale each ?
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Draedus6871y@IntrusionCM And wayland solves it but i3wm is based on xorg . Thinking on switching to sway but I don’t know how it will play out with the nvidia card
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Should play out fine if its a non ancient version I think.
https://cvbraeuer.de/2022/06/...
The trouble is the calculation.
You set a global DPI, then you have to do a bit of math.
I hope I explain it right, but the basic gist is that you scale the smaller displays so they appear to have the same size than largest one and create a virtual screen spanning *all* monitors.
Which usually incurs a blurryness, which you can try to counter with a sharpness factor.
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