Can't change resolution mint20 xfce de

[mhbell]

Clean fresh install all updates. The resolution is 1920 x 1080 which is to small for these poor old eyes. When I go to settings and try to change it to 1360 x 768 which works fine in Mint 20 cinnamon de the screen tears and goes nuts. This happens no matter what resolution I try. here is my inxi

Mel

 

mhbell@mint-xfce:~$ inxi -Fxz
System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-56-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0
  Desktop: Xfce 4.14.2 Distro: Linux Mint 20 Ulyana base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal
Machine:
  Type: Desktop Mobo: ASUSTeK model: PRIME B450M-A v: Rev X.0x
  serial: <filter> UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1002 date: 03/07/2019
Battery:
  Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Wireless Mouse
  charge: 5% (should be ignored) status: Discharging
CPU:
  Topology: Quad Core model: AMD Ryzen 3 2200G with Radeon Vega Graphics
  bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Zen L2 cache: 2048 KiB
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
  bogomips: 27947
  Speed: 1448 MHz min/max: 1600/3500 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1441 2: 1420
  3: 1420 4: 1422
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Raven Ridge [Radeon Vega Series / Radeon Vega Mobile Series]
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: amdgpu,ati
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RAVEN (DRM 3.35.0 5.4.0-56-generic LLVM 10.0.0)
  v: 4.6 Mesa 20.0.8 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Raven/Raven2/Fenghuang HDMI/DP Audio vendor: ASUSTeK
  driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.1
  Device-2: AMD Family 17h HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
  v: kernel bus ID: 08:00.6
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-56-generic
Network:
  Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
  vendor: ASUSTeK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus ID: 07:00.0
  IF: enp7s0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 13.61 GiB (2.9%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 860 EVO 500GB size: 465.76 GiB
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 22.79 GiB used: 6.77 GiB (29.7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda11
  ID-2: /home size: 22.79 GiB used: 6.84 GiB (30.0%) fs: ext4
  dev: /dev/sda13
  ID-3: swap-1 size: 1.91 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda12
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 38.6 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 38 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 198 Uptime: 33m Memory: 13.66 GiB used: 2.29 GiB (16.8%)
  Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 Shell: bash v: 5.0.17
  inxi: 3.0.38
mhbell@mint-xfce:~$

 

[securitybreach]

I am looking but you can always change the scaling (zoom level)

 

 

 

[securitybreach]

It sounds like a bug but I am still searching.

 

[mhbell]

I solved the problem. I changed the desktop settings from XFWM4 + Composting to Metacity + Composting. I guess the default was the XFWM4 and that won't work with my hardware. Thanks anyway security.

Mel

 

[securitybreach]

Good deal

[raymac46]

https://www.slant.co/versus/1302/1310/~xfwm_vs_compiz

 

[raymac46]

http://duncanlock.net/blog/2013/06/07/how-to-switch-to-compton-for-beautiful-tear-free-compositing-in-xfce/