Display only scales correctly when I boot via recovery mode
I'm running ubuntu 18.10, with i3 as my window manager. I switched to lightdm recently and my UI doesn't scale correctly (screen is 1440x2560). I've tried most of the fixes I see online, like setting dpi manually with xrandr --dpi 192, which seems to make no difference; the entire UI is far too big.
However, if at boot time I select recovery mode, and then immediately select the "continue boot" option instead of actually using any of the recovery options, then the display scales normally.
Any idea why this might be? I'd like to be able to boot normally.
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I'm running ubuntu 18.10, with i3 as my window manager. I switched to lightdm recently and my UI doesn't scale correctly (screen is 1440x2560). I've tried most of the fixes I see online, like setting dpi manually with xrandr --dpi 192, which seems to make no difference; the entire UI is far too big.
However, if at boot time I select recovery mode, and then immediately select the "continue boot" option instead of actually using any of the recovery options, then the display scales normally.
Any idea why this might be? I'd like to be able to boot normally.
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I'm running ubuntu 18.10, with i3 as my window manager. I switched to lightdm recently and my UI doesn't scale correctly (screen is 1440x2560). I've tried most of the fixes I see online, like setting dpi manually with xrandr --dpi 192, which seems to make no difference; the entire UI is far too big.
However, if at boot time I select recovery mode, and then immediately select the "continue boot" option instead of actually using any of the recovery options, then the display scales normally.
Any idea why this might be? I'd like to be able to boot normally.
boot display lightdm i3-wm
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I'm running ubuntu 18.10, with i3 as my window manager. I switched to lightdm recently and my UI doesn't scale correctly (screen is 1440x2560). I've tried most of the fixes I see online, like setting dpi manually with xrandr --dpi 192, which seems to make no difference; the entire UI is far too big.
However, if at boot time I select recovery mode, and then immediately select the "continue boot" option instead of actually using any of the recovery options, then the display scales normally.
Any idea why this might be? I'd like to be able to boot normally.
boot display lightdm i3-wm
boot display lightdm i3-wm
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