I had a 1920 by 1080 “reglular” (non-HD) monitor about 27 inches and just switched to a larger version (3840 by 2160, about 37 inches) in attempt to ease eye strain. Anyway, I set the new monitor to 200% in System Settings and don’t see any more than before but it is just larger now. For the most part all appears fine except when I scroll.
When scrolling, I can see the font change–in color from black to reddish brown and in weight to some degree of bold. It does that at the start of the scroll and reverts to normal when the scrolling stops.
I tried both X11 and Wayland, and 200% and 100%, and the font still changes on scrolling.
I had to get a new monitor cable but it states it’s good up to 8K at 60 Hz and I’m pretty sure this monitor is 4K. With the old cable, the refresh rate was reduced to 30 Hz.
Both monitors are Samsung. My graphics hardware is the built-in Intel HD 630 on an HP Eliite Desk 800.
The ouput from kscreen doctor and inxi are below.
My question is: Is the screen “too much” for my machine hardware or is there something that can be set up to correct this? Thank you.
I see an asterisk and exclamation point in the kscreen doctor for output 67 under Modes but haven’t been able to locate what that indicates.
kscreen-doctor -o ✔
Output: 65 DP-1
disabled
disconnected
priority 0
DisplayPort
Modes:
Geometry: 0,0 0x0
Scale: 1
Rotation: 1
Overscan: 0
Vrr: incapable
RgbRange: unknown
HDR: incapable
Wide Color Gamut: incapable
ICC profile: incapable
Color profile source: incapable
Brightness control: unsupported
Output: 66 HDMI-1
disabled
disconnected
priority 0
HDMI
Modes:
Geometry: 0,0 0x0
Scale: 1
Rotation: 1
Overscan: 0
Vrr: incapable
RgbRange: unknown
HDR: incapable
Wide Color Gamut: incapable
ICC profile: incapable
Color profile source: incapable
Brightness control: unsupported
Output: 67 DP-2
enabled
connected
priority 1
DisplayPort
Modes: 72:3840x2160@60*! 73:3840x2160@30 74:3840x2160@30 75:2560x1440@60 76:1920x1080@60 77:1920x1080@50 78:1920x1080@60 79:1680x1050@60 80:1600x900@60 81:1280x1024@60 82:1440x900@60 83:1280x800@60 84:1280x720@60 85:1280x720@50 86:1280x720@60 87:1024x768@60 88:800x600@60 89:720x576@50 90:720x480@60 91:720x480@60 92:640x480@60 93:640x480@60
Geometry: 0,0 3840x2160
Scale: 1
Rotation: 1
Overscan: 0
Vrr: incapable
RgbRange: unknown
HDR: incapable
Wide Color Gamut: incapable
ICC profile: incapable
Color profile source: incapable
Brightness control: unsupported
Output: 68 HDMI-2
disabled
disconnected
priority 0
HDMI
Modes:
Geometry: 0,0 0x0
Scale: 1
Rotation: 1
Overscan: 0
Vrr: incapable
RgbRange: unknown
HDR: incapable
Wide Color Gamut: incapable
ICC profile: incapable
Color profile source: incapable
Brightness control: unsupported
Output: 69 DP-3
disabled
disconnected
priority 0
DisplayPort
Modes:
Geometry: 0,0 0x0
Scale: 1
Rotation: 1
Overscan: 0
Vrr: incapable
RgbRange: unknown
HDR: incapable
Wide Color Gamut: incapable
ICC profile: incapable
Color profile source: incapable
Brightness control: unsupported
Output: 70 HDMI-3
disabled
disconnected
priority 0
HDMI
Modes:
Geometry: 0,0 0x0
Scale: 1
Rotation: 1
Overscan: 0
Vrr: incapable
RgbRange: unknown
HDR: incapable
Wide Color Gamut: incapable
ICC profile: incapable
Color profile source: incapable
Brightness control: unsupported
inxi -v7azy ✔
System:
Kernel: 6.12.48-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 15.2.1
clocksource: tsc avail: hpet,acpi_pm
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-6.12-x86_64
root=UUID=b51565af-f8e8-472a-8187-e7c51806ba49 rw quiet
resume=UUID=01613b5b-71f6-4021-a856-6f7b2be197d8 udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 6.3.6 tk: Qt v: N/A info: frameworks v: 6.18.0
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 2 dm: SDDM Distro: Manjaro base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: HP product: HP EliteDesk 800 G3 SFF v: N/A
serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 3 serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: HP model: 8299 v: KBC Version 06.29 serial: <superuser required>
part-nu: 1VR48UC#ABA uuid: <superuser required> Firmware: UEFI vendor: HP
v: P01 Ver. 02.50 date: 07/17/2024
Battery:
Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech Marathon Mouse/Performance Plus
M705 serial: <filter> charge: 100% (should be ignored) rechargeable: yes
status: discharging
Memory:
System RAM: total: 32 GiB available: 31.13 GiB used: 6.59 GiB (21.2%)
Message: For most reliable report, use superuser + dmidecode.
Array-1: capacity: 64 GiB slots: 4 modules: 4 EC: None
max-module-size: 16 GiB note: est.
Device-1: Channel-B DIMM1 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
(unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s volts: curr: 1 width (bits):
data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston part-no: 9905702-203.A00G
serial: <filter>
Device-2: Channel-B DIMM2 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
(unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s volts: curr: 1 width (bits):
data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung part-no: M378A1K43DB2-CTD
serial: <filter>
Device-3: Channel-A DIMM3 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
(unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s volts: curr: 1 width (bits):
data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Kingston part-no: 9905702-119.A00G
serial: <filter>
Device-4: Channel-A DIMM4 type: DDR4 detail: synchronous unbuffered
(unregistered) size: 8 GiB speed: 2400 MT/s volts: curr: 1 width (bits):
data: 64 total: 64 manufacturer: Samsung part-no: M378A1K43DB2-CTD
serial: <filter>
CPU:
Info: model: Intel Core i7-7700 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake
gen: core 7 level: v3 note: check built: 2018 process: Intel 14nm family: 6
model-id: 0x9E (158) stepping: 9 microcode: 0xF8
Topology: cpus: 1x dies: 1 clusters: 4 cores: 4 threads: 8 tpc: 2
smt: enabled cache: L1: 256 KiB desc: d-4x32 KiB; i-4x32 KiB L2: 1024 KiB
desc: 4x256 KiB L3: 8 MiB desc: 1x8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 800 min/max: 800/4200 scaling: driver: intel_pstate
governor: powersave cores: 1: 800 2: 800 3: 800 4: 800 5: 800 6: 800 7: 800
8: 800 bogomips: 57616
Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm acpi adx aes aperfmperf apic arat
arch_capabilities arch_perfmon art avx avx2 bmi1 bmi2 bts clflush
clflushopt cmov constant_tsc cpuid cpuid_fault cx16 cx8 de ds_cpl dtes64
dtherm dts epb erms est f16c flush_l1d fma fpu fsgsbase fxsr ht hwp
hwp_act_window hwp_epp hwp_notify ibpb ibrs ida intel_pt invpcid lahf_lm
lm mca mce md_clear mmx monitor movbe mpx msr mtrr nonstop_tsc nopl nx pae
pat pbe pcid pclmulqdq pdcm pdpe1gb pebs pge pln pni popcnt pse pse36 pti
pts rdrand rdseed rdtscp rep_good sdbg sep smap smep smx ss ssbd sse sse2
sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 stibp syscall tm tm2 tsc tsc_adjust tsc_deadline_timer
vme x2apic xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveopt xsaves xtopology xtpr
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling mitigation: Microcode
Type: indirect_target_selection status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: VMX unsupported
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: mmio_stale_data mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed mitigation: IBRS
Type: spec_rstack_overflow status: Not affected
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: IBRS; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: conditional;
RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsa status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort mitigation: TSX disabled
Type: vmscape mitigation: IBPB before exit to userspace
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel HD Graphics 630 vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: i915
v: kernel arch: Gen-9.5 process: Intel 14nm built: 2016-20 ports:
active: DP-2 empty: DP-1, DP-3, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2, HDMI-A-3
bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5912 class-ID: 0300
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.18 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.8
compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: modesetting alternate: fbdev,vesa
dri: iris gpu: i915 display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 3840x2160 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 1016x571mm (40.00x22.48")
s-diag: 1165mm (45.88")
Monitor-1: DP-2 model: Samsung LS37D80xU serial: <filter> built: 2025 res:
mode: 3840x2160 hz: 60 scale: 100% (1) dpi: 121 gamma: 1.2
size: 808x455mm (31.81x17.91") diag: 945mm (37.2") ratio: 16:9, 15:9 modes:
max: 3840x2160 min: 640x480
API: EGL v: 1.5 hw: drv: intel iris platforms: device: 0 drv: iris
device: 1 drv: swrast gbm: drv: iris surfaceless: drv: iris x11: drv: iris
inactive: wayland
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 compat-v: 4.5 vendor: intel mesa v: 25.2.3-arch1.2
glx-v: 1.4 direct-render: yes renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2)
device-ID: 8086:5912 memory: 30.4 GiB unified: yes
API: Vulkan v: 1.4.321 layers: 1 device: 0 type: integrated-gpu name: Intel
HD Graphics 630 (KBL GT2) driver: mesa intel v: 25.2.3-arch1.2
device-ID: 8086:5912 surfaces: N/A
Info: Tools: api: clinfo, eglinfo, glxinfo, vulkaninfo
de: kscreen-console,kscreen-doctor wl: wayland-info
x11: xdpyinfo, xprop, xrandr
Audio:
Device-1: Intel 200 Series PCH HD Audio vendor: Hewlett-Packard
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_avs bus-ID: 00:1f.3
chip-ID: 8086:a2f0 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.12.48-1-MANJARO status: kernel-api with: aoss
type: oss-emulator tools: alsactl,alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: JACK v: 1.9.22 status: off tools: N/A
Server-2: PipeWire v: 1.4.8 status: off with: pipewire-media-session
status: active tools: pw-cli
Server-3: PulseAudio v: 17.0-43-g3e2bb status: active with: pulseaudio-alsa
type: plugin tools: pacat,pactl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I219-LM vendor: Hewlett-Packard driver: e1000e
v: kernel port: N/A bus-ID: 00:1f.6 chip-ID: 8086:15e3 class-ID: 0200
IF: eno1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: NetGear Nighthawk A7000 802.11ac Wireless Adapter AC1900
[Realtek 8814AU] driver: rtl8814au type: USB rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s
lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 bus-ID: 1-2:6 chip-ID: 0846:9054 class-ID: 0000
serial: <filter>
IF: wlp0s20f0u2 state: up mac: <filter>
IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
broadcast: <filter>
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
Info: services: NetworkManager, systemd-timesyncd, wpa_supplicant
WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Message: No bluetooth data found.
Logical:
Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 151.02 GiB (31.7%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Kingfast model: N/A size: 476.94 GiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s tech: SSD
serial: <filter> fw-rev: 0A0 scheme: GPT
Optical-1: /dev/sr0 vendor: hp HLDS model: DVDROM DUD1N rev: MDM1
dev-links: cdrom
Features: speed: 24 multisession: yes audio: yes dvd: yes rw: none
state: running
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 459.69 GiB size: 451.4 GiB (98.20%)
used: 151.01 GiB (33.5%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2 maj-min: 8:2 label: N/A
uuid: b51565af-f8e8-472a-8187-e7c51806ba49
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%)
used: 312 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sda1 maj-min: 8:1 label: NO_LABEL
uuid: 20B6-5A29
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 10 (default 60) cache-pressure: 100 (default) zswap: no
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 16.95 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: -2 dev: /dev/sda3 maj-min: 8:3 label: swap
uuid: 01613b5b-71f6-4021-a856-6f7b2be197d8
Unmounted:
Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 16 rev: 2.0
speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 chip-ID: 1d6b:0002
class-ID: 0900
Device-1: 1-2:6 info: NetGear Nighthawk A7000 802.11ac Wireless Adapter
AC1900 [Realtek 8814AU] type: Network driver: rtl8814au interfaces: 1
rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s (57.2 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 2.0 power: 500mA
chip-ID: 0846:9054 class-ID: 0000 serial: <filter>
Device-2: 1-3:3 info: Logitech Unifying Receiver type: keyboard,mouse,HID
driver: logitech-djreceiver,usbhid interfaces: 3 rev: 2.0
speed: 12 Mb/s (1.4 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 1.1 power: 98mA
chip-ID: 046d:c52b class-ID: 0300
Device-3: 1-11:4 info: China Resource Semico Keyboard type: keyboard,HID
driver: hid-generic,usbhid interfaces: 2 rev: 1.1 speed: 1.5 Mb/s (183 KiB/s)
lanes: 1 mode: 1.0 power: 98mA chip-ID: 1a2c:2124 class-ID: 0300
Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: super-speed hub ports: 10 rev: 3.0
speed: 5 Gb/s (596.0 MiB/s) lanes: 1 mode: 3.2 gen-1x1 chip-ID: 1d6b:0003
class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 35.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Processes: 252 Power: uptime: 6d 7h 29m states: freeze,mem,disk suspend: deep
avail: s2idle wakeups: 7 hibernate: platform avail: shutdown, reboot,
suspend, test_resume image: 12.44 GiB services: org_kde_powerdevil,upowerd
Init: systemd v: 257 default: graphical tool: systemctl
Packages: pm: pacman pkgs: 1977 libs: 444 tools: pamac pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
Compilers: clang: 20.1.8 gcc: 15.2.1 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.3.3
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.40