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alangaraujo

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Registered: 2025-06-19

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[SOLVED] Weird screen scaling on XFCE - Debian 12

Hi there.

I'm switched my default desktop environment from Gnome to XFCE in Debian 12.

However, my laptop's screen scaling doesn't look like the XFCE screenshots, looks vertically stretched, and I don't find any clue about how to fix it.

I've installed xfce4 and xfce4-goodies only.

Someone can help?

Thank you

Last edited by alangaraujo (2025-06-20 01:51:38)

ToZ

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Re: [SOLVED] Weird screen scaling on XFCE - Debian 12

Hello and welcome.

The screenshot looks fine to me. What exactly do you mean by "vertically stretched"? Also, can you post back the output of:

xrandr

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alangaraujo

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Registered: 2025-06-19

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Re: [SOLVED] Weird screen scaling on XFCE - Debian 12

Thank you for quick reply

To clarify, vertically streched, I mean the font used on applications menu and Thunar items, when I installed, the default font is Sans Regular.

Added later 12 min 17 s:
The xrandr output is

Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1920 x 1080, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 309mm x 173mm
   1920x1080     60.01*+  60.01    59.97    59.96    59.93  
   1680x1050     59.95    59.88  
   1400x1050     59.98  
   1600x900      59.99    59.94    59.95    59.82  
   1280x1024     60.02  
   1400x900      59.96    59.88  
   1280x960      60.00  
   1440x810      60.00    59.97  
   1368x768      59.88    59.85  
   1280x800      59.99    59.97    59.81    59.91  
   1280x720      60.00    59.99    59.86    59.74  
   1024x768      60.04    60.00  
   960x720       60.00  
   928x696       60.05  
   896x672       60.01  
   1024x576      59.95    59.96    59.90    59.82  
   960x600       59.93    60.00  
   960x540       59.96    59.99    59.63    59.82  
   800x600       60.00    60.32    56.25  
   840x525       60.01    59.88  
   864x486       59.92    59.57  
   700x525       59.98  
   800x450       59.95    59.82  
   640x512       60.02  
   700x450       59.96    59.88  
   640x480       60.00    59.94  
   720x405       59.51    58.99  
   684x384       59.88    59.85  
   640x400       59.88    59.98  
   640x360       59.86    59.83    59.84    59.32  
   512x384       60.00  
   512x288       60.00    59.92  
   480x270       59.63    59.82  
   400x300       60.32    56.34  
   432x243       59.92    59.57  
   320x240       60.05  
   360x202       59.51    59.13  
   320x180       59.84    59.32  
HDMI-1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

Added later 41 min 18 s:
If it's a common behavior in XFCE, no problem.

Maybe I just was used too much to the Gnome style.

Added later 3 h 04 min 41 s:
To contribute to other users, apparently the theme was the issue.

Just tweaked the configurations, font size, window size, etc

The desktop look better now.

Thank you.

Last edited by alangaraujo (2025-06-19 23:27:14)