{"id":23378,"date":"2022-04-09T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/?p=23378"},"modified":"2022-04-09T16:44:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T15:44:00","slug":"virtualbox-screen-zoom-in-linux-for-high-dpi-screens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/23378\/virtualbox-screen-zoom-in-linux-for-high-dpi-screens\/","title":{"rendered":"VirtualBox: Screen Zoom in Linux for High DPI Screens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too small representation in Linux virtual machine.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>My Microsoft Surface has quite a high screen resolution, which works quite well in Windows, as the desktop is scaled according to the setting. Now I had installed a Linux in VirtualBox, this is displayed with the original resolution. This makes everything correspondingly small and not really usable.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/linux_dpi_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/linux_dpi_1.jpg 571w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/linux_dpi_1-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In most Linux distributions, this problem can be easily solved via the settings. There is usually a setting here that determines the scale. Double &#8220;Hi-DPI&#8221; solves the problem. The screenshot is from Linux Mint.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/linux_dpi_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"848\" height=\"617\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/linux_dpi_2.png 848w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/linux_dpi_2-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/linux_dpi_2-768x559.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 848px) 100vw, 848px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too small representation in Linux virtual machine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1682,2071],"class_list":["post-23378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-linux-en","tag-virtualbox-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}