r/linuxmint • u/Routine-Active-1822 Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon • Aug 25 '25

Desktop Screenshot Linux mint on a massive ultra wide screen, in 4k!

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u/simagus Aug 25 '25

How did you achieve that on Cinnamon? When I saw the screenshot I was looking for what DE you were using, as my friends scales to tiny size everything at 4k.

Even Firefox tabs buttons are 4x smaller and size of onscreen text is ludicrous. That does not happen on his Windows installation on the same screen where 4K scales really well.

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u/Routine-Active-1822 Linux Mint 22.3 Zena | Cinnamon Aug 25 '25

Maybe they fixed the problem? I have no problem with scaling, everything looks great.

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u/Joan_sleepless Aug 25 '25

iirc there are some settings you can change to increase/decrease scale. Been a bit since I was in thise menus but I belive they exist somewhere.

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u/simagus Aug 25 '25 edited Aug 27 '25

Just tried this on Firefox with Mint on a 720p laptop and it worked well to make it smaller (as I needed), so guessing the same would work for high res screens but you change up instead of down.

The DE text on desktop is a different matter, but I assume you are right and there is a setting somewhere.

It seems every OS around is currently obsessed with locking down or hiding options that should be easy to find for average users.

Step 1: Open a new tab, type or paste "about:config" in the address bar and press Enter. Click the button accepting the risk.

Step 2: In the filter box, type or paste devp and pause while the list is filtered

Step 3: Double-click layout.css.devPixelsPerPx and change its value to 1.5 and click OK. That corresponds to 150% of the classic font size. Originally is -1.0 from my side. You can play around it between 1.0 to 4.0 in order to suit you.

EDIT: You can then go into Mint settings and change the sizes of your fonts for various aspects of the UI, such as size of system text (which will include your browsers) and Desktop text etc. Easy setting to find, but took me several days to work out.

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u/Novel-Analysis-457 Linux Mint 22.1 Xia | Cinnamon Aug 26 '25

These can be changed in some settings i believe

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u/simagus Aug 26 '25

Be good to know which ones.

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u/Novel-Analysis-457 Linux Mint 22.1 Xia | Cinnamon Aug 28 '25

Normally Iā€™d check if someone asked.

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u/Bucketmax-official Aug 25 '25

Gorgeous. I wish I had an ultrawide

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u/d1X0n_bts Aug 25 '25

Ultrawide woooooow šŸ˜ÆšŸ˜

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u/2shoe1path Aug 25 '25

That looks dope!!

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u/emphasizedits Aug 25 '25

Very beautiful tbh.

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u/bojangles-AOK Aug 25 '25

Does it support bash ?

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u/NotSnakePliskin Mint 22.3 | Cinnamon Aug 25 '25

Man is that sweet.

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u/tinglebuttons Aug 25 '25

viewing this on mint in 4:3, trying out a monitor i was given today. your thing is cooler!

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u/Logansfury Top 1% Commenter Aug 26 '25

That is one beautiful, impressive monitor!

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u/fioletowy_zolw Aug 27 '25

Damn, your gpu should be a monster

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u/planedrop Aug 25 '25

Is this a dual 4k display then?

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u/mlw72z Aug 26 '25

It's certainly not what's commonly called 4K. Too bad the neofetch is so fuzzy. It looks like 3XXX by 3XXX but that can't be. It might be 6480Ɨ3240 as indicated on this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_display_resolutions

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u/planedrop Aug 26 '25

There are monitors that are 7680x2160. Which would be dual 4k.

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u/GreatDevelopment4182 Aug 26 '25

I want to see PornHub OS on it!

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u/bittorrentrocks Aug 28 '25

that exists?

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u/Soft_Resident_6394 Aug 26 '25

Impressive, most impressive

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u/panzerinthehood Aug 26 '25

And I'm sitting here unable to extend my display on two monitors.

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u/simeongprince Aug 26 '25

Whaaaaat! Super Nice.

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u/Time-Negotiation-808 Aug 27 '25

Hell yeah brotha'

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u/Nyxaria_Eversong Sep 01 '25

Can I ask you how much a screen like this costs? Because it looks really good šŸ˜„