Scaling In Mate

To make the change permanent, I created an .xprofile file in my home folder with the following content:

xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 1.5x1.5

Where eDP-1 is the screen ID

I found another solution:

My laptop has a NVIDIA plus Intel GPU. When i properly configured the NVIDIA GPU Optimus support through proprietary driver, the resolution was fixed without any other configuration.

I followed the following guides:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PRIME#PRIME_render_offload

or

https://us.download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86_64/450.57/README/primerenderoffload.html

Dear Mate team, please give us fractional per-monitor scaling. Google it and you will see that people are leaving Mate because of lack of fractional scaling. It's 2022, not 1998 or something. People have laptops these days, and plug them into different monitors. All other major distros seem to have fractional scaling by now.

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