I have an Ubuntu 20.04.2 laptop with GNOME 3.36.8 with a 1920x1080 display connected to a 3840x2160 monitor via an HDMI cable. The problem I'm having is that I would like to scale up the contents of the 4k monitor while keeping the laptop's display the same.
Here's what I have tried:
I turned on fractional scaling in the GNOME display settings and set the monitor's scale to 200% and the laptop's display's scale to 100%. This didn't work because the laptop only displayed the upper left quarter of the "screen".
I tried to follow this answer using the command:
$ xrandr --dpi 276 --fb 7680x3840 --output HDMI-1-1 --mode 3840x2160 --pos 0x0 --output eDP-1-1 --scale 2x2 --panning 3840x2160+0+0
and I got the following error message:
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 140 (RANDR)
Minor opcode of failed request: 7 (RRSetScreenSize)
Serial number of failed request: 31
Current serial number in output stream: 32
I think I would like to use xrandr but I don't know why I'm getting that error message.
Here's the output of $ xrandr --current
in case that helps:
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 5760 x 2160, maximum 16384 x 16384
eDP-1-1 connected 1920x1080+3840+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 345mm x 194mm
1920x1080 60.02*+ 60.01 59.97 59.96 59.93
1680x1050 59.95 59.88
1600x1024 60.17
1400x1050 59.98
1600x900 59.99 59.94 59.95 59.82
1280x1024 60.02
1440x900 59.89
1400x900 59.96 59.88
1280x960 60.00
1440x810 60.00 59.97
1368x768 59.88 59.85
1360x768 59.80 59.96
1280x800 59.99 59.97 59.81 59.91
1152x864 60.00
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
800x512 60.17
700x525 59.98
800x450 59.95 59.82
640x512 60.02
720x450 59.89
700x450 59.96 59.88
640x480 60.00 59.94
720x405 59.51 58.99
684x384 59.88 59.85
680x384 59.80 59.96
640x400 59.88 59.98
576x432 60.06
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-1-1 connected primary 3840x2160+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 600mm x 340mm
3840x2160 30.00* 30.00 25.00 24.00 29.97 23.98
2560x1440 59.95
1920x1080 60.00 50.00 59.94 30.00 24.00 29.97 23.98
1600x900 60.00
1280x1024 60.02
1280x800 59.91
1280x720 60.00 59.94
1024x768 60.00
800x600 60.32
720x576 50.00
720x480 60.00 59.94
640x480 60.00 59.94
Thanks!