Another surprising effect: fonts are shrinked but some icons are enlarged on the "primary" (laptop internal) monitor even when the external monitor is switched off!
#INTEGRATED INTEL GMA X4500 GRAPHICS DUAL MONITOR DRIVER#
But once I use a multihead "Server Layout", the intel(4) driver sets the physical screen size to a funny value and consequently sets a "wrong" DPI.the internal laptop TFT (eDP1) - I can get the "true" DPI very easily. Surprisingly, some, not all other items are of the same size as with the "natural/true" DPI of that monitor. I do have nearly what I want: a desktop that spans multiple monitors, but fonts are shrinked on the primary one. The GPU and the driver can handle split-view (non-clone) setups, but from what I see the driver keeps only one DPI.So, the two monitors have different resolutions and screen sizes, thus DPIs (1600x9x1024, 131 and 96 DPI). My system is an "Intel integrated HD Graphics 5500" intel(4) in a docking station (ThinkPad T450s), with an external LCD monitor connected to the docking station's VGA (DP2-3).The FreeBSD Handbook mentions an example with two monitors of exactly the same resolution for good reason.pp.), it seems to be a reasonable decision for the developers to keep things simple and set a fixed default DPI=96 no matter what the real display device is, unless explicitely stated otherwise. it is not stretched on one of them.īefore telling this " a story of poor defaults", I would like to have more input of s/o with more insight on this topic, because from what I learned about the complexity of this topic (readablity, different eye-distance in different use-cases, other specials like xinerama etc. When an item spans multiple monitors, the magnification is unified, i.e.when I place a printed letter right on top of the surface of the screen, the sizes of the fonts/letters and other items on the monitor are exactly the same as on the letter (so-called DTP configuration).I need help in setting up "true" DPI screen resolution in a multihead setup.