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Which graphical system utlities you miss on Linux? (self.linux)

submitted 2 days ago by user_naa to c/[email protected]

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Hello everyone! I know that Linux GUI advanced in last few years but we still lack some good system configuration tools for advanced users or sysadmins. What utilities you miss on Linux? And is there any normal third party alternatives?

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[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It seems impossible to set display scaling from the command line. Anything that fixes that would be nice.

[–] user_naa 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What is your DE? On KDE Plasma Wayland you can just use kscreen-doctor output.HDMI-A-1.scale.2 to set it to 200%

And it seem like CLI not GUI issue :)

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Debian + GNOME. I'm extremely new to Linux so excuse my ignorance. I searched around the topic a while finding some commands that didn't work and others having the same issue. If you know different that would be much appreciated!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you are talking about fractional scaling it is not available (probably only available as an experimental setting on debian??). Otherwise, does this work https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#GNOME ?

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It didn't unfortunately :/

[–] that_leaflet 2 points 1 day ago

One of my favorite things about Gnome is that almost anything can be customized via CLI with dconf or gsettings. Which is great until you encounter one of the few things you can't customize, like displays.