I’ll make comments as I go.
@freebird54 I’m just going through your instructions now. The easiest and best fix obviously is just changing the screen resolution. The only issue I’m finding with this fix is the mouse cursor. Either the fonts are a tad bit too small or if I change the resolution so the fonts are perfect then the cursor is massive, and it’s not possible to make the cursor smaller in the settings as the settings are already on the lowest 16. Because of my lack of knowledge on the subject matter of screen resolution etc I’m not too sure what I’m losing out on. You mentioned that 1920x1080 gives One about half the screen real-estate. Does that matter? lol I don’t know.
The issue with the second option is that whilst changing the scaling to 2x works perfectly it isn’t a comprehensive fix like changing the resolution is. leafpad, gimp and albert are too small.
ahah, I think if I changed the screen resolution to 2560x1440 and the Font DPI to 120, I think that is the fix. But I’m losing out on my screen real estate as you mentioned, lol whatever that means. just noticed too though that when I hover the cursor over the top panel or top border of certain system windows (like the settings window) that the cursor becomes bigger, not chromes window, otherwise the cursor is fine.
haha you dealt with the window manager issue!
If a person does your final ‘tweak’ which I haven’t yet or fully read through, do they not implement the aforementioned fixes? I’ll just revert all the changes and try your final fix.
Didn’t know where within my .bashrc file to paste the environment variables so I just pasted them above the alias commands leaving a blank line above and below them and then I ran source .bashrc
I’m taking it that your final ‘tweak’ is done on top of the first fixes. lol sorry my bad, reading up and down your instruction, implementing them and righting comments was a bad idea, I’m confusing myself.
Okay from the ‘steps to a more nuanced…’ I followed your instructions down to your EDIT but at the first sudo mv..... command I stopped because I got an error saying no such directory. also I edited vim /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop with Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --force-device-scale-factor=1.5 %u I rebooted and things are better but still very small. I was lucky though because I had done something similar with albert.desktop otherwise I wouldn’t have had a clue where to edit the google-chrome.desktop file.
Honestly if you don’t have the time to reply that’s not a problem. I just wanted to give you my feed back on your instructions and as you can tell I’m not very computer literate but love Linux so am struggling with it. I’ve probably made some stupid mistakes etc. Also I can happily go to cinnamon no problem so it may not be worth your time anyway.
I’ll keep xfce on my laptop for a day or so anyway with just the resolution changes for now and a fat mouse cursor lol.
On behalf of the many people who will surely benefit and myself thank you for the time you took in writing your instructions.