Fedora 33 Workstation: scaling the whole desktop (icons etc.)

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Is it possible to make the icons etc. of the Gnome desktop smaller on my notebook? I am using mainly the wayland-session. I have to huge icons etc. and I would like to make it smaller. Is there any way to do it? I have not found anything in the settings. Thank you.

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Laptop? Do you have the dual GPU?
Please post the results of “lspci | grep VGA” so we can tell which devices you are working with. It is possible that drivers can affect this.

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lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] RV730/M96 [Mobility Radeon HD 4650/5165]

I am using HP-notebooks (2 x ATI Radeon and 1 x Nvidia Geforce GT 130M) and no dual GPU. On Nvidia and ATI machines I am using only wayland-session.

The gnome-shell-extensions “desktop-icons” from the Fedora repositories does not work under Gnome 3.38.x. (error-message!). Thank you.

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I’t really a pity “desktop-icons” doesn’t work. For what is a desktop, then!? I’m very upset

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Does the Scaling Factor help?

(Or is it just for fonts?)

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Thank you. Some elements got smaller/bigger but not the application icons on desktop (show applications). Scaling is partially helpfully. Do you have another idea?. :smiley:

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If only there was a way of enabling fractional scalingâ€Ļ :frowning_face:

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(Spoiler alert - Just search for “Fractional Scaling in GNOME”. There are ways to go below 100%)

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Thank you. Have you ever tried, because it’s an experimental feature of mutter/wayland?. I think that’s the only way to catch the beasty huge icons. :grinning:

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I have never felt the need for it @heliosstyx when I am using this GitHub - godlyranchdressing/Adwaita-Slim: Slim Adwaita.. This jolly good theme is old and unmaintained but it still keeps things slim and right.

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Thank you. How is it to install for trying it on my machine.

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Download the releases and extract them over at .local/share/themes. This would add the theme to your collection, which you can select using the Tweaks tool.

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Don’t have the Tweaks tool? Run sudo dnf install gnome-tweaks.

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You can even enable the fractional scaling (125, 150 and 175%) - by default only 100% and 200% are available → see the How to Enable Fractional Scaling in Ubuntu 19.10 Eoan | UbuntuHandbook

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