Oversampling, or scaling down

This article came at a most fortuitous moment. I recently acquired a Lenovo W540, and was on the verge of using it as mainly a compile server for my Gentoo boxes. Between the pixel density and the silly "click pad" thingy I was pretty frustrated.

I had previously used the GNOME tweak tool to change the scaling factor to 2, but gave up too quickly when I encountered the huge magnification issue. And I hadn't even explored the use of xrandr to set the screen scale for the laptop display. Thanks for the enlightening article and comments: life's getting back to "normal" for me with this device!